Three killed in Somalia tea shop blast, soldiers among casualties
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – At least three people were killed and 11 others injured when an explosion ripped a small restaurant popular with soldiers in the Somali capital on Saturday evening, police and local officials said.
Former PM Soares who ushered in democracy in Portugal dies at 92
LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s former president and prime minister Mario Soares, who was a central figure in the country’s return to democracy in the 1970s after decades of rightist dictatorship, died on Saturday aged 92, doctors said.
Fuel truck blast kills dozens in north Syrian border town
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A fuel truck exploded in the busy center of a rebel-held town near Syria’s border with Turkey on Saturday, killing dozens of people and wounding dozens more, several sources said.
Thousands demonstrate in Paris over murder of Kurdish militants
PARIS (Reuters) – Several thousand people demonstrated in Paris on Saturday to demand justice and a speedier investigation into the 2013 murder of three Kurdish activists.
Iraqi forces close in on Tigris in Islamic State stronghold Mosul
MOSUL, Iraq/BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi special forces closed in on the Tigris river that runs through central Mosul on Saturday, advancing in parallel with other troops and forcing Islamic State to retreat in its last major stronghold in the country.
Two ‘dangerous terrorists’ killed in Saudi security operation: agency
DUBAI (Reuters) – Two “dangerous terrorists” were killed in a Saudi security operation in the capital Riyadh on Saturday, the Saudi state news agency SPA reported, citing an Interior Ministry spokesman.
Syrian government decides Aleppo renovation plan: state media
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Syrian government on Saturday decided a plan of works to restore services, industry and security to the war-ravaged northern city of Aleppo, state media reported.
West Africa leaders to continue Gambia mediation: Liberia president
ACCRA (Reuters) – West African leaders are still pursuing mediation to ensure a peaceful transfer of power in Gambia where President Yahya Jammeh refused to accept defeat in an election last month, Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said on Satu…
Germany’s Gabriel says EU break-up no longer unthinkable
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s insistence on austerity in the euro zone has left Europe more divided than ever and a break-up of the European Union is no longer inconceivable, German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel told Der Spiegel magazine.
Philippine troops kill two linked to group supporting Islamic State
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine security forces on Saturday killed a foreign national and his female companion who were suspected of being connected to a militant group supporting Islamic State, police officials said, two days after the group’s leader wa…
