Shooting in Brazil kills at least 14 in dance club
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Gunmen shot and killed at least 14 people early on Saturday in a crowded dance club in the northeastern Brazil city of Fortaleza, authorities said.
Greens’ centrist dash threatens Germany’s beleaguered SPD
HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) – Germany’s Greens broke with their broad-church tradition on Saturday by electing as leaders two figures from the centrist wing, a move that would make them more palatable as coalition partners for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s…
Pakistan rescue teams spot French woman climber, no communication with Polish man
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan military helicopters circling the treacherous “Killer Mountain” were on Saturday able to spot a French woman climber who left behind her injured Polish partner to seek help, a senior official said, but neither was able to…
Incumbent Zeman wins second term in Czech presidential run-off
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Czech President Milos Zeman defeated pro-EU academic Jiri Drahos in the Czech presidential election on Saturday, a tacit endorsement Zeman’s tough stance against immigration and his courtship of Russia and China.
Tillerson says Washington, Europe start work on Iran nuclear deal
WARSAW (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Saturday that working groups on fixing what the U.S. sees as flaws in the Iranian nuclear deal have already begun to meet, trying to determine the scope of what is needed and how much Ira…
Turkey says U.S. has promised to stop arming YPG, warns Washington on Manbij
ANKARA/BEIRUT (Reuters) – The United States has pledged to stop supplying weapons to a Kurdish militia in Syria, Turkey said on Saturday, calling on Washington to immediately remove its troops from a Syrian town of Manbij that Turkish forces plan to ta…
Colombia bomb attack kills at least three police, wounds 14
BOGOTA (Reuters) – At least three police officers were killed and 14 wounded on Saturday by an early morning bomb attack outside a police station in Colombia’s coastal city of Barranquilla, authorities said.
Pro-Russian incumbent Zeman holds strong lead in Czech presidential vote
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Incumbent Milos Zeman held a strong lead over pro-EU academic Jiri Drahos in the Czech presidential election on Saturday in which voters were judging Zeman’s tough stance against immigration and courtship of closer ties with Russia a…
Russia’s Syria congress to call for vote on country’s future: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The conference on Syria in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi will call for the Syrian people to decide their future by popular vote without external pressure, RIA news agency reported on Saturday.
Nearly 100 killed in ambulance blast in Afghan capital Kabul
KABUL (Reuters) – A bomb hidden in an ambulance killed at least 95 people and wounded about 158 in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday when it blew up at a police checkpoint in a busy part of the city that was crowded with pedestrians.
