WORLD HEADLINES
By Mohammed Mukhashaf ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) – Islamic State in Yemen on Tuesday claimed coordinated suicide bombings targeting the Yemeni government and the Arab military coalition in the southern city of Aden that killed 15 Arab and Yemeni troops. The bombings were Islamic State’s first known attacks on the Yemeni administration, which had made the al-Qasr hotel in the northwest of the port city its headquarters since it returned to
By Patricia Zengerle and Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The deadly air strike that hit a hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz was a mistake made within the U.S. chain of command, the American commander of international forces in Afghanistan said on Tuesday. The strike on Saturday on an Afghan hospital run by Doctors Without Borders, or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), killed 22 people and deeply angered the medical
Syrian state television and a monitoring group said on Tuesday that Russian jets hit Islamic State targets in the Syrian city of Palmyra and the northern province of Aleppo, in some of the heaviest Russian attacks on the hardline Islamist group. Local activists said that Russian war planes killed at least 12 people from two families in the city. Syria’s state television said the strikes destroyed 20 vehicles and three
By Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) – Taliban fighters on motorbikes have carried out hit-and-run attacks on Afghan forces trying to clear Kunduz city of insurgents, more than a week after the militant movement briefly seized the provincial capital. Adopting new tactics, Taliban fighters have been firing at security forces at checkpoints and then melting away into residential areas, rather than directly engaging in gun battles, said Hamdullah Danishi, acting governor
By Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday he did not want a spike in deadly violence in East Jerusalem and the Israeli-occupied West Bank to spiral into armed confrontation with Israel. Four Israelis have been killed since Thursday in a stabbing and a drive-by shooting blamed on Palestinian militants. Two Palestinians, one of them a 13-year-old, have been killed and about 170
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Fourteen elephants were poisoned by cyanide in Zimbabwe in three separate incidents, two years after poachers killed more than 200 elephants by poisoning, Zimbabwe’s National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority said Tuesday.
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Tuesday he wanted to avoid a violent escalation with Israel, his most direct comments since unrest has spread and provoked fears of a new uprising. “We don’t want a military and security escalation with Israel,” Abbas said at a meeting of Palestinian officials, according to official news agency Wafa. Abbas’s intentions were unclear before his recent comments, particularly following his UN General Assembly speech last
British opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn railed against the government’s austerity policies in Manchester on Monday, breaking convention by appearing on the sidelines of the rival Conservative party’s conference. “We challenge the whole notion that austerity is some kind of economic necessity when in reality it’s a political choice made by those who wish to see a growing gap between the richest and the poorest,” Corbyn told a cheering crowd
Six financial brokers were “willing and enthusiastic” players in a conspiracy to fix the Libor benchmark interest rate, prosecutors said as their trial opened on Tuesday. The men, known by nicknames including “Lord Libor” and “Big Nose”, acted to “corrupt a process that should not have been corrupted”, London’s Southwark Crown Court heard. Many of the world’s top banks have been hit by scandals over the rigging of Libor rates,
By Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Afghan forces asked for U.S. air support while fighting the Taliban in Kunduz shortly before an air strike resulted in the deaths of civilians there, the American commander of international forces in Afghanistan said on Monday. U.S. Army General John Campbell’s comments fell short of squarely acknowledging U.S. responsibility for an air strike that killed 22 people in an Afghan hospital run by aid
