Bomb planted on road kills 4 in northeast Kenya: official
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Four people were killed and 11 injured when their landcruiser detonated a bomb planted on a road in northeast Kenya on Friday, a senior government official said, in the latest of a series of such attacks.
Six found guilty of involvement in 1993 blasts in India’s financial hub
MUMBAI (Reuters) – An Indian court on Friday found six men guilty of involvement in a series of blasts in the city of Mumbai in 1993 that killed 257 people and wounded 800, the latest in scores of convictions related to India’s most deadly bombings.
Transport strike brings ‘Black Friday’ to Italian cities
ROME (Reuters) – Nationwide strikes left commuters and tourists stranded across Italy on Friday, as transport unions called for better job conditions for workers and protested against privatization.
House at heart of Singapore’s Lee family feud has no foundations, cracks in walls
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – In property-obsessed Singapore, the future and value of one house has gripped the nation due to an extraordinary feud between the children of the island state’s founding father.
U.S. Senate’s Iran sanctions are breach of nuclear deal: senior Iranian official
ANKARA (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate’s decision to impose new sanctions on Iran is an “unquestionable” violation of a nuclear deal reached in 2015 between Tehran and six major powers including the United States, Iranian media quoted a senior Iranian offi…
Macron’s alliance on track for huge parliamentary majority: Odoxa poll
PARIS (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron remained on course for a landslide majority in France’s parliamentary election on Sunday and turnout will be even lower than in the first round, an Odoxa opinion poll showed on Friday.
Armed police fire stun gun at knife-wielding man near British parliament
LONDON (Reuters) – British police said officers guarding one of the gates to the Westminster parliament in central London had fired a stun gun at a man who reached for a knife when they approached him on Friday but it was not initially being considered…
Catalans woo immigrants in quest to split from Spain
POLINYA, Spain (Reuters) – In a community hall in the Spanish region of Catalonia, two independence activists take the stage against a backdrop of red and yellow striped Catalan flags: a Syrian-born tourist guide and a Spanish member of parliament born…
Kremlin says takes negative view of proposed new U.S. sanctions
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin takes an extremely negative view of the proposed new U.S. sanctions against Russia and believes that they can harm other countries that have to adhere to these sanctions, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.
Germany’s Zypries accuses U.S. of dropping joint approach on Russia
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Economy Minister Brigitte Zypries accused the United States on Friday of giving up a joint approach with Europe on sanctions against Russia, warning of possible counter measures if Washington ends up fining German companies.
