Saudi-led coalition jets bombed a Houthi military position and army bases in the Yemeni capital Sanaa through the night and into Sunday morning in what appeared to be further retaliation for the killing of dozens of coalition soldiers two days ago. The air strikes targeted troops loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, an ally of the Houthis, and a Houthi base in what was the al-Imam University, a religious
By Angeliki Koutantou ATHENS (Reuters) – Former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras played down fears on Sunday that a snap election in two weeks would produce a fractured result, saying there were enough undecided voters to produce a clear winner on the day. Tsipras resigned last month to make way for the election, hoping to secure a new mandate for a tough austerity program he agreed in exchange for an
Syrian state media said on Sunday that an Islamist insurgent had confessed after his arrest to being behind two car bomb blasts that killed 37 people in the south of the country on Friday, including a Druze leader. The explosions had provoked protests by Druze in the city of Sweida during which six government security personnel were killed and a statue of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s father was destroyed, a
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde on Sunday praised Ukraine’s economic progress and urged its creditors to take full advantage of a deal to restructure $18 billion of sovereign and quasi-sovereign debt. Speaking in Kiev alongside Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Lagarde said: “It is really up to all creditors to take advantage of (this) debt restructuring … We believe it is a very good arrangement … We doubt very much
Britons consider Queen Elizabeth II their greatest monarch, according to a survey published three days before she becomes her nation’s longest-serving head of state. A total of 27 percent of respondents backed the current queen, according to an opinion poll conducted by YouGov for the Sunday Times newspaper. Elizabeth, who is 89, will on Sept. 9 beat the record held by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, who reigned for 63 years
MEXICO CITY (AP) — An independent report released Sunday dismantles the Mexican government’s investigation into last year’s disappearance of 43 teachers’ college students, starting with the assertion that the giant funeral pyre in which the attorney general said they were burned to ash beyond identification simply never happened.
Ex-Soviet Tajikistan’s interior ministry said Sunday that four more militants were killed by government forces in a continuation of violence that began with shootouts Friday, and has now left at least 26 dead. “Government forces of Tajikistan killed four members of a terrorist group during an operation in the Ramit Valley,” an MVD spokesperson told AFP of the military operation under way roughly 50 kilometres northeast from the country’s capital,
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Independent commission rejects Mexican government account of the disappearance of 43 students.
Algeria, Niger and Chad on Sunday stressed the urgency of creating a national unity government to solve the conflict in their neighbour Libya. Algeria’s African affairs ministers and the foreign ministers of Niger and Chad stressed the importance of such a government “to preserve Libya’s unity and territorial integrity and its people’s cohesion”.
By Krisztina Than and Karin Strohecker HEGYESHALOM, Hungary/VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria and Germany threw open their borders to thousands of exhausted migrants on Saturday, bussed to the Hungarian border by a right-wing government that had tried to stop them but was overwhelmed by the sheer numbers reaching Europe’s frontiers. Left to walk the last yards into Austria, rain-soaked migrants, many of them refugees from Syria’s civil war, were whisked by