WORLD HEADLINES
By Stephen Kalin and Asli Kandemir BAGHDAD/ANKARA (Reuters) – Gunmen in military uniform seized 18 Turkish workers from a sports stadium they were building in northeastern Baghdad on Wednesday, their company said, in what Ankara said appeared to have been a targeted attack. Diplomats have said Turkey could suffer reprisals after abandoning months of reticence to launch air strikes against Islamic State in neighboring Syria and open its bases to
By Jack Stubbs MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia staged a military parade on Wednesday to commemorate seizing a group of Pacific islands from Japan at the end of World War Two, a move likely to inflame tensions over a long-running territorial dispute with Tokyo. The show of force, the first of its kind on the island of Sakhalin in Russia’s Far East, is part of a push by President Vladimir Putin
Two Red Cross employees were shot dead in the northern Yemeni province of Amran by an unknown attacker on Wednesday, the international aid group said, in a rare case of violence against humanitarian workers in a five-month war. The pair were Yemeni nationals and were returning from aid work in the far northern province of Saada, spokesman Adnan Hizam said by telephone. A civil war in Yemen escalated in March
By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea on Wednesday accused South Korea of claiming victory for an accord that ended an armed standoff, saying that was “cowardly” and urging the South to be “discreet in words and deeds”. South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s approval ratings surged after the deal, which many South Korean media outlets portrayed as a win for her tough stance against the North. “Nothing is more
By Joe Bavier ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Two years ago, Pascal Affi N’Guessan was in jail after backing the losing side in Ivory Coast’s civil war. While N’Guessan appears likely to lose in October, the fact that the former prime minister is even contesting the election for the main opposition Ivorian Popular Front (FPI) ought to mark a step towards national reconciliation. Under the incumbent President Alassane Ouattara, Ivory Coast is
NEW YORK (AP) — The Archdiocese of New York has unveiled the large wooden armchair that’s been built for Pope Francis when he celebrates Mass at Madison Square Garden.
Sanaa (AFP) – Two suicide bombers hit a Shiite mosque in the Yemeni capital Sanaa in quick succession on Wednesday, witnesses told AFP, reporting casualties.
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Gunmen shot dead two Yemenis working for the International Committee of the Red Cross on Wednesday as they were traveling from the northern Saada province to the capital, Sanaa, the group said.
NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on the U.S. Open (all times local):
By Krisztina Than and Madeline Chambers BUDAPEST/BERLIN (Reuters) – Hundreds of angry migrants demonstrated outside Budapest’s Eastern Railway Terminus on Tuesday demanding they be allowed to travel on to Germany, as the biggest ever influx of migrants into the European Union left its asylum policies in tatters. Around 1,000 people waved tickets, clapping, booing and shouting “Germany! Germany!” outside the station. A refugee crisis rivaling the Balkan wars of the
