Libyan coastguards recover bodies of 11 migrants: spokesman
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libyan coastguards recovered the bodies of 11 migrants who died off Libya’s western shore during an attempted crossing to Italy on Sunday, a spokesman said.
Canadian accused of killing Peruvian medicine woman lynched in Amazon
LIMA (Reuters) – A Canadian man was lynched in the Peruvian Amazon after residents of a remote village accused him of killing an 81-year-old medicine woman a day earlier, a spokesman for the attorney general’s office said on Sunday.
Blast at election center in Afghan capital kills more than 50
KABUL (Reuters) – A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a voter registration center in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday, killing at least 57 people and injuring more than 100, in the most serious attack yet on preparations for elections scheduled …
Death toll rises in fifth day of Nicaragua protests against government
MANAGUA (Reuters) – Anti-government protests in Nicaragua entered a fifth day on Sunday as the death toll from the violence rose and looting was reported in some areas, aggravating the crisis around longstanding President Daniel Ortega.
Police in Armenia detain opposition leaders, protesters
YEREVAN (Reuters) – Police in Armenia detained three opposition leaders and nearly 200 protesters on Sunday, drawing a rebuke from the European Union after demonstrators demanded newly appointed Prime Minister Serzh Sarksyan quit.
Iran, Israel play down prospects they’ll go to war over Syria
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Iran and Israel traded blame on Sunday for an unprecedented, weeks-long surge in hostilities between their forces over Syria but played down prospects of a spillover into war.
Rockets shake Mali’s Timbuktu, no casualties: French army
BAMAKO/PARIS (Reuters) – Homemade rockets shook the northern Mali city of Timbuktu on Sunday near U.N. and French military bases where Islamist militants launched a deadly suicide raid last weekend, France’s army said.
Loud explosions again rock northern Mali’s Timbuktu
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Several loud explosions rocked the northern Mali city of Timbuktu on Sunday near military bases where one U.N peacekeeper was killed and seven French troops were wounded last weekend by Islamist militants, a resident and a U.N. sourc…
France’s president says he has no ‘plan B’ for Iran nuclear deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said he has no “plan B” for the Iran nuclear deal and that the United States should stay in the agreement as long as there is no better option.
Macron taps into U.S. Marines lore with tree sapling gift to Trump
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron, who starts a three-day state visit to the United States on Monday, will seek to please his host Donald Trump with a gift that taps into U.S. Marines lore.
