Three Kenyan police killed by suspected al Shabaab landmine
MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) – Three police officers were killed in eastern Kenya on Wednesday when their vehicle hit a landmine believed to have been laid by Somali jihadist group al Shabaab, a senior official said.
Mexico’s ruling party battles leftist nemesis in key state vote
ECAPTEPEC, Mexico (Reuters) – Nine decades of rule by President Enrique Pena Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in Mexico’s most populous state are hanging in the balance in an election that could batter its hopes of keeping power national…
Trump praises Duterte for anti-drug campaign in call transcript
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump praised Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in a phone call last month for doing an “unbelievable job on the drug problem,” according to a leaked Philippine transcript, despite human rights condemnation of Duterte’s drug crackdown.
Sherpas find four climbers dead in their tents on Everest
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepali sherpas have found four climbers dead in their tents on Mount Everest, officials said on Wednesday, with suspicion they died of carbon monoxide poisoning, taking the death toll on the world’s highest mountain to 10 in the p…
Australian police waited too long to react to deadly siege threat: coroner
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian police failed to respond quickly enough to the threat posed by a gunman responsible for a siege at a Sydney cafe in 2014 in which three people including the hostage-taker were killed, a coroner said on Wednesday.
Thousands flee Philippine city after rebel rampage claimed by Islamic State
PANTAR, Philippines (Reuters) – Thousands of civilians fled fighting in the Philippines on Wednesday as troops tried to fend off Islamist militants who took over large parts of a city, capturing Christians, seizing and torching buildings and setting fr…
South Korea military suspects object crossing border was North Korean balloon
SEOUL (Reuters) – An unidentified object that flew across the border from North Korea on Tuesday was most likely to have been a balloon carrying propaganda leaflets rather than a drone, the South Korean military said on Wednesday.
Qatar says its official state news agency was hacked
CAIRO (Reuters) – Qatar said on Wednesday its official state news agency had been hacked and false statements attributed to its ruler had been posted.
As Venezuela unrest spreads, Maduro presses on with plans to rewrite charter
CARACAS (Reuters) – Faced with mounting unrest, Venezuela’s unpopular leftist President Nicolas Maduro vowed on Tuesday to push ahead in July with the formation of a “constituent assembly” to rewrite the constitution before regional elections in Decemb…
Camrail ‘mainly to blame’ for Cameroon train crash that killed 79: inquiry
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Cameroon’s Camrail was “mainly to blame” for a train crash that killed some 79 people last October, largely because the train was going at more than twice the speed limit, was overloaded and its brakes were defective, a government r…
