Venezuela opposition boycotts meeting on Maduro assembly, clashes rage
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition boycotted a meeting on Monday to discuss President Nicolas Maduro’s plan for a new popular assembly, preferring to protest in the streets where they were again blocked by security forces firing tear gas.
Libya’s neighbors, U.N. voice support for its new move for talks
ALGIERS (Reuters) – Libya’s neighbors and the United Nations on Monday voiced their support for a meeting held last week between the North African country’s main rival figures, the head of the U.N.-backed government, Fayez Seraj, and eastern commander …
North Korea’s detention of U.S. citizen ‘concerning’: White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The latest detention of a U.S. citizen by North Korea, which raises the number of Americans in their custody to four, is “concerning,” a White House spokesman said, amid heightened tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile pr…
East Congo bandits kill park ranger, kidnap then release two others
KINSHASA (Reuters) – Armed bandits in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo killed a Congolese park ranger and briefly kidnapped two conservation workers, including a Frenchman, during an ambush last week, Congo’s park service and a conservation group s…
East Libyan forces launch assault in Benghazi, 12 killed
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – East Libyan forces pushed on Monday into two districts of Benghazi where they still face resistance, losing at least 12 men in clashes and mine blasts, according to a medical official.
Kenya hospital wall collapses in heavy rain, killing six
MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) – At least six people, including four children, were killed in Kenya’s port city of Mombasa on Monday after a hospital wall collapsed under heavy rain, officials said.
Nations urge Trump to stay in Paris climate agreement
OSLO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Many nations urged U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday to remain in the global agreement to combat climate change, even if he reduces the ambition of U.S. pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Indonesia to disband hardline Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia is to disband an Islamist group that calls for a state based on sharia law, citing concern it undermines a secular state ideology in the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country, officials said on Monday.
Besieged Syrians battle fuel shortages by recycling
DOUMA, Syria (Reuters) – For residents of besieged Douma, the daily struggle to survive involves not just avoiding the violence that has ravaged the Syrian town, but laboring to obtain scarce basic commodities.
Islamist suicide bomber kills at least eight in Somali capital
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A suicide bomber rammed a car laden with explosives into a cafe in central Mogadishu on Monday, killing at least eight people in an attack claimed by the Islamist militant group al Shabaab.
