News in Brief - Wed, May, 27, 2015 - 12:30 GMT
1. U-S Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul has blamed his party for the rise of ISIL terrorists in Syria and Iraq.
2. Syria has lashed out at Turkey over its foreign minister’s recent comment that Ankara is ready to provide assistance for militants fighting the Syrian government.
3. Kurdish forces in Syria have driven out ISIL terrorists from over a dozen Assyrian Christian villages.
4. Nearly 90 people have been killed in the latest Saudi airstrikes on Yemen.
5. A UK-based monitoring group says ISIL Takfiri terrorists have executed 20 men in Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra.
6. Clashes have broken out between police and anti-austerity protesters in London. The protesters had gathered to demand free education and oppose further austerity measures.
7. Seven senior officials of soccer's world governing body FIFA have been arrested in Zurich on U-S charges.
8. Russia has reacted to the US probe and its pressure on Swiss officials to arrest senior FIFA officials over alleged corruption.
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