November deadly for migrants crossing Mediterranean, IOM says
GENEVA (Reuters) – At least 365 migrants drowned in the past three days in the Mediterranean in six incidents, making this November already six more times more deadly than the same month a year ago, the International Organization for Migration said on …
Italian politician under fire for saying anti-mafia MP should be killed
ROME (Reuters) – The governor of a southern Italian region has come under fire for saying the head of parliament’s anti-mafia committee deserved to be killed.
Germany’s Merkel sets news conference, decision on candidacy expected
BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel will hold a news conference on Sunday evening, her conservative Christian Democratic (CDU) party said on Friday, with the German leader widely expected to announce her decision to run for a fourth term.
Thousands of Indonesians expected to rally against rising intolerance
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Thousands of Indonesians are expected to rally on Saturday against what they see as growing racial and religious intolerance in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country.
South Korea Park’s office says martial law claim ‘irresponsible demagoguery’
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s office on Friday dismissed a claim by the leader of the opposition that she was planning to declare martial law as “irresponsible demagoguery”.
U.N. investigators in area probing Aleppo convoy attack: Eliasson
GENEVA (Reuters) – U.N. investigators into a deadly attack on a U.N. convoy near Aleppo in September have been in the area collecting evidence and if they are able to identify who carried it out, the issue should be brought to the Security Council, U.N…
Suicide bombers kill two in northeast Nigeria’s Maiduguri: police
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Suicide bombers in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the heart of a seven-year-old insurgency by Islamist militant group Boko Haram, killed two people, the state police commissioner said on Friday.
Stalled luxury hotel, apartment projects in Afghan capital ‘lost $85 million’
KABUL (Reuters) – Stalled luxury hotel and apartment projects next to the U.S. Embassy in the Afghan capital may have lost American taxpayers $85 million and left the partially constructed buildings as security threats, a government watchdog said on Th…
For Syria rebels, Trump win adds to uncertain fate
BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) – On the eve of Donald Trump’s election victory, members of a Western-backed Syrian rebel group met U.S. officials to ask about the outlook for arms shipments they have received to fight President Bashar al-Assad.
Iraqi children dump Islamic State’s books of violence
QAYYARA, Iraq (Reuters) – The school walls have a fresh coat of paint and classrooms are crammed, but it will take longer to undo the damage done to thousands of Iraqi children who lived under Islamic State for more than two years.
