Tokyo / AFP Finance ministers and central bankers from the G7 meet in Japan this week for talks likely to highlight a sharp divide over currency policy and how to breathe life into the wheezing global economy. The group — including US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew and European Central Bank President Mario Draghi — converge at a hot spring ...

  CAIRO/ AP A leading international rights group on Wednesday released a report documenting atrocities by Libya’s IS affiliate — including instances of “crucifixions” and shooting a man to death for “cursing God” — in the coastal city of Sirte, a stronghold of the militants. Human Rights Watch recounts “scenes of horror” that followed the city’s seizure by IS militants ...

  ISTANBULI / AP Turkey’s state-run news agency says Turkish fighter jets have killed 10 Kurdish rebels during bombing runs in the country’s southeast. Citing a military source, the Anadolu Agency said on Wednesday that the Monday air raids targeted the mainly Kurdish province of Hakkari, which borders with Iraq. The Turkish military is engaged in renewed conflict with rebels linked ...