Rebels resume peace talks with Russians after Jordan mediates
AMMAN (Reuters) – Talks between the Syrian opposition and Russian negotiators to reach a ceasefire in a rebel-held town in southwestern Syria have resumed after mediation by Jordan that has been seeking a ceasefire, an opposition spokesman said.
At least 40 killed in bus accident in northern India
MUMBAI (Reuters) – At least 40 people were killed when a packed bus spun off a slippery road and fell into a deep ravine in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand on Sunday, police said.
Three Afghans beheaded, school torched in suspected Islamic State attack
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Unidentified gunmen beheaded three men and torched a boys’ school in Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan late on Saturday, in an attack officials blamed on Islamic State militants.
One dead in Iraq’s Kirkuk in suicide bombing near ballot box store, days before recount
KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) – One person was killed in Iraq’s Kirkuk on Sunday when a suicide car bomb went off near a storage site housing ballot boxes from a May national election, police sources said, two days before a manual recount was due to begin.
Rebels resume peace talks with Russians under Jordanian mediation
AMMAN (Reuters) – Talks have resumed between the Syrian opposition and Russian negotiators over a peace deal in a rebel held town in southwestern Syria after Jordanian mediation, an opposition spokesman said.
Searching for missing boys, Thai divers grope way through flooded cave
CHIANG RAI, Thailand (Reuters) – Thai navy divers had still to navigate their way through three kilometers (nearly 2 miles) of dark, flooded cave passages on Sunday to reach the spot rescuers believe would give 12 missing boys and their soccer coach a …
Eleven people killed in India’s capital, police probe link to gang war
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Eleven members of a family were found dead in India’s capital on Sunday, most of them hanging from the ceiling of their home, blindfolded and hands tied behind the back, in a part of the city that was the scene of a gang war just two…
Car bomb near ballot box site in Iraq’s Kirkuk kills one: police
KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) – A car bomb blast in Iraq’s Kirkuk near a storage site housing ballot boxes from elections in May killed one person, police sources said on Sunday.
Mexico votes for new president, leftist rebel favored to win
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexicans vote for a new president on Sunday in an election tipped to hand power to an anti-establishment outsider who would inject a new dose of nationalism into government and could sharpen divisions with Donald Trump’s United …
North Korea’s Kim asked China to bring early end to sanctions: Yomiuri
TOKYO (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un asked Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting in Beijing in June to work towards bringing an early end to economic sanctions imposed on his country, Japan’s Yomiuri newspaper reported on Sunday.
