Somalia’s al Shabaab kill four in hotel attack in Puntland region: official
BOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) – Somalia’s al Shabaab militants stormed a hotel in the capital of the semi-autonomous Puntland region, Bosasso, on Wednesday, killing four guards, while two of the attackers also died, a senior official said.
China says United States should ‘brush up on’ South China Sea history
BEIJING (Reuters) – The United States needs to brush up on its history about the South China Sea, as World War Two-related agreements mandated that all Chinese territories taken by Japan had to be returned to China, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi sai…
White House weighs designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist group
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is considering a proposal that could lead to potentially designating Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
Colombia president’s campaign allegedly took Odebrecht cash: official
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos’s 2014 election campaign allegedly received as much as $1 million from Brazil’s Odebrecht SA, the country’s attorney general said on Tuesday, as fallout from a massive corruption scandal continu…
Businessman Jovenel Moise takes office as president of Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Businessman Jovenel Moise became Haiti’s new president on Tuesday, ending a political stalemate that lasted more than a year with his promise to deliver thousands of new jobs.
British PM anticipates call for Scottish independence referendum: report
(Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May is developing a secret strategy in the belief that Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is two weeks away from demanding a second referendum on Scotttish independence, The Courier newspaper in Dundee, S…
Amnesty says Syria executes, tortures thousands at prison; government denies
BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) – The Syrian government executed up to 13,000 prisoners in mass hangings and carried out systematic torture at a military jail near Damascus, rights watchdog Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
At least 20 dead in bomb blast outside Afghan Supreme Court
KABUL (Reuters) – At least 20 people were killed on Tuesday in a bomb blast outside the Supreme Court in the centre of the Afghan capital, government officials said, in what appeared to be the latest in a series of attacks on the judiciary.
Argentine women stage topless protest claiming sunbathers’ rights
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Dozens of topless women, joined by hundreds of fully clothed protesters, demonstrated in Buenos Aires on Tuesday to demand the right to sunbathe semi-nude after police asked bare-breasted women to leave a nearby beach.
Colombia begins peace talks with ELN rebels to end 52-year war
BOGOTA/QUITO (Reuters) – Colombia’s Marxist ELN rebels began official peace talks with the government on Tuesday in a bid to end their part in a five-decade conflict that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, damaged the economy and left millions…
