Spain hunts for driver in van rampage, says Islamist cell dismantled
RIPOLL/BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) – Police were searching on Saturday for the driver of a van that killed 13 people when it plowed into a crowd in Barcelona and were trying to determine whether two other suspected Islamist militants linked to the attac…
Mali president postpones referendum on reforms
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has shelved plans for a referendum on constitutional reforms that have been met with opposition and ignited regular street protests, he said on state television overnight.
Graffiti activists in Berlin turn Nazi symbols into art
BERLIN (Reuters) – Horrified at the sight of swastikas scrawled on walls, children’s playgrounds and building sites, a group of graffiti artists in Berlin is transforming the Nazi symbols into colorful artwork such as flowers, cars and animals.
Car blast hits Syrian coastal city: Manar TV, monitor
AMMAN (Reuters) – A car bomb on Saturday hit the Syrian port city of Latakia with reports of injuries, the Lebanese Hezbollah group’s al Manar television station and a monitor said.
Several wounded in Russian knife attack, attacker shot dead
MOSCOW (Reuters) – From seven to eight people were wounded in a knife attack in the Russian Siberian city of Surgut, local criminal investigators said on Saturday, adding that the attacker had been shot dead by police.
South African minister resigns amid assault probe
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A South African deputy minister who is being investigated by police for allegedly assaulting a woman in a nightclub has resigned, the president’s office said on Saturday.
Scientist Hawking blames UK government for health service ‘crisis’
LONDON (Reuters) – Physicist Stephen Hawking has criticized the British government for causing a crisis in the state-run National Health Service (NHS), saying it had to be protected from becoming a profit-making U.S.-style system.
Moroccan asylum seeker ‘targeted women’ in Finland knife attack
HELSINKI/TURKU, Finland (Reuters) – A Moroccan man who was arrested for killing two women in a knife rampage was an asylum seeker who appeared to have targeted women in Finland’s first terrorism-related attack, police and a Red Cross official said on S…
Nigeria’s Buhari to return home after sick leave in Britain: presidency
ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari will on Saturday return from medical leave in Britain where he has been since May 7, a presidential spokesman said.
Nervous Japanese hold drill in case North Korea fires missiles over them
KOTOURA, Japan (Reuters) – Residents of a town on the Japanese coast held evacuation drills on Saturday to prepare for any launch of North Korean missiles toward the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam, that would fly over their homes.
