Polish rescue team finds French climber on Pakistan’s ‘Killer Mountain’
WARSAW (Reuters) – After an exhausting night ascent a rescue mission found the French mountaineer Elisabeth Revol on the slopes of Pakistan’s treacherous “Killer Mountain”, but a Polish climber who had been with her remained missing, Poland’s winter cl…
Colombia bomb attack kills at least five police, wounds dozens
BOGOTA (Reuters) – An early morning bomb attack outside a police station in Colombia’s coastal city of Barranquilla killed at least five police officers and wounded 42 on Saturday, authorities said.
Polish rescue team finds French climber on Pakistan’s ‘Killer Mountain’
WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish climbers found the French mountaineer Elisabeth Revol on the slope Pakistan’s treacherous “Killer Mountain”, the Polish climbing team said, although the Polish climber was still missing.
Deadlocked peace talks in focus as Cyprus votes for new president
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek Cypriots were voting on Sunday for a new president tasked with breaking a deadlock in unification talks, ending a conflict that harms Greco-Turkish relations and frustrates Ankara’s ambitions of joining the European Union.
Spanish court says Puigdemont must attend parliament in person
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s Constitutional Court said on Saturday the former leader of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, could only attend a swearing-in session to become regional leader if he was physically present in the parliament and had a judge’s permi…
Israel criticizes bill banning statements implicating Poland in Holocaust
JERUSALEM/WARSAW (Reuters) – Israel called on Poland on Saturday to amend a bill approved this week by Polish lawmakers that would make it illegal to suggest Poland bore any responsibility for crimes against humanity committed by Nazi Germany on its so…
Bodies of three crew members from Sanchi identified
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The bodies of three of the crew of the Sanchi, the tanker involved in the worst oil ship disaster in decades off the coast of China, have been identified, the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) reported Saturday.
Greek PM fails to get political backing for deal with Skopje
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras failed to get backing from the main opposition leader on Saturday to build consensus ahead of intensified talks between Greece and Macedonia on resolving a decades-old name row.
Gunmen kill at least 14 Mali soldiers in attack on army camp
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on Saturday said his people would not be frightened by “barbaric attacks” after unidentified gunmen killed at least 14 soldiers in a pre-dawn assault on a military camp.
Russian Stalin-era Great Terror exposer freed from jail pending trial
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian human rights activist who helped to expose the Stalin-era Great Terror and found mass graves of thousands of the victims was freed from jail, while pending trial on child pornography charges, local media reported on Saturda…
