Tour bus crashes in Taiwan, killing at least 32
TAIPEI (Reuters) – At least 32 people were killed when a tour bus crashed near Taipei on Monday night, with television footage showing the bus careening toward a road barrier before flipping on its side.
Dutch approval of Ukraine-EU treaty delayed until after elections: ANP
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A landmark cooperation agreement between the European Union and Ukraine will delayed and might even be voided as the Netherlands puts off approving the treaty.
World cardinals back pope after anonymous attacks by conservatives
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Senior Roman Catholic cardinals from the around the world defended Pope Francis on Monday against a spate of recent attacks from conservatives challenging his authority.
Ethnic clashes in central Mali kill at least 13
BAMAKO (Reuters) – At least 13 people were killed in central Mali at the weekend in inter-ethnic clashes between Fulanis and Bambaras, the interior ministry said on Monday, escalating a conflict over resources in a region increasingly outside state con…
Blast kills at least 13 in Pakistani city of Lahore, 83 injured
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – An explosion near the Punjab provincial assembly in the Pakistani city of Lahore killed at least 13 people and wounded 83 others on Monday, a senior police official said.
Brazil’s Temer denies shielding ally from corruption case
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Michel Temer on Monday dismissed criticism that he promoted a close aide to shield him from prosecution and vowed to dismiss any minister indicted for corruption.
Netanyahu non-committal on Palestinian statehood as he heads to U.S.
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sidestepped a question on whether he still supports the creation of a Palestinian state as he left for the United States on Monday on his first visit since President Donald Trump took offi…
Exclusive: After Islamic State defeat, broken Iraqi farmers weigh heavy losses
QARAQOSH, Iraq/ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Sami Yuhanna was making a decent living as a wheat farmer until a jihadist put a gun to his head and declared his land in Iraq’s Nineveh province the property of Islamic State.
Islamic State leadership targeted in air strike, Baghdadi fate unclear: Iraqi military
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The Iraqi airforce carried out a strike on a house where Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was thought to be meeting other commanders, the Iraqi military said on Monday, without making clear whether he had been hit.
Analysis: Baghdad’s bloody protests mark resumption of Shi’ite power struggle
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Bloody protests in Baghdad over the weekend by followers of influential cleric Moqtada al-Sadr signal the resumption of a power struggle between Iraq’s Shi’ite leaders which had been put on hold to focus on the war against Islamic S…
