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.
Seventh Australian senator referred to High Court as citizenship crisis deepens
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – A crisis engulfing Australia’s parliament has widened after a key independent senator became the seventh parliamentarian referred to the High Court to determine if his dual citizenship makes him ineligible to sit in parliament.
Keyboard warriors: South Korea, U.S. gear up for war games to counter North Korea threat
SEOUL (Reuters) – In air conditioned bunkers and at military bases across South Korea, it is with keyboards – not tanks – that South Korean and the U.S. forces will launch military exercises on Monday, denounced by North Korea as a rehearsal for war.
Chinese scam suspects took over 11-story block in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – No sooner had the 11-story apartment building in Phnom Penh’s affluent Tuol Kouk district been finished than dozens of young Chinese men and women moved in loaded with desks and laptops, said neighbors.
