Russia hands note of protest to U.S. over plans to search trade mission
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s foreign ministry has summoned a U.S. diplomat in Moscow to hand him a note of protest over plans to conduct searches in Russia’s trade mission complex in Washington, which should soon be closed, the ministry said in a statem…
Suicide bombers attack power station north of Baghdad, killing seven: police
TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) – Suicide bombers struck a state-run power station north of Baghdad early on Saturday, killing seven people and forcing the facility to shut down in an attack claimed by Islamic State, police and army sources said.
‘Send Merkel home’, says right-wing rival in constituency battle
GREIFSWALD, Germany (Reuters) – Vowing to “shove her off the throne”, Leif-Erik Holm of the hard-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is mounting a robust challenge to Chancellor Angela Merkel in her constituency as she seeks re-election on Sept. 24.
Seven Kenyan schoolgirls die in dormitory blaze: government
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Seven Kenyan teenage schoolgirls died and 10 more were hospitalized after a fire engulfed their boarding school dormitory in Nairobi early on Saturday morning, a government official said.
Russia’s Putin won’t attend U.N. General Assembly
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend this month’s United Nations General Assembly in New York, Russian news wire quoted his spokesman as saying on Saturday.
Location, location, location: a glimpse inside a North Korean apartment in South Korea
SEOUL (Reuters) – A South Korean exhibition offering a glimpse into the life of the reclusive North opened on Saturday with a replica of a middle-class home in Pyongyang where the property market is booming, despite UN sanctions over its weapons progra…
Syrian army gains in Islamic State’s last central Syria bastion
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Syrian army and its allies were fighting on Saturday in Islamic State’s last pocket in central Syria after taking the heavily defended village of Uqairabat on Friday, a war monitor reported.
With prayer, sacrifices, Pakistani Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Muslims in Pakistan crowded mosques and prayer grounds across the country to offer prayers and sacrifice goats and cows for Eid al-Adha holiday on Saturday, marking the second major religious festival of Islam.
Rohingya Muslims flee as more than 2,600 houses burned in Myanmar’s Rakhine
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) – More than 2,600 houses have been burned down in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar’s northwest in the last week, the government said on Saturday, in one of the deadliest bouts of violence involving the Muslim minorit…
NAFTA envoys lay out proposals, try to block Trump noise
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Trade negotiators from Canada, the United States and Mexico presented more proposals for a renewed North American Free Trade Agreement on Friday and tried to put behind them threats from U.S. President Donald Trump to pull out o…
