Cameroon President vows probe after rail crash kills at least 75
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Cameroon’s President Paul Biya on Sunday pledged to investigate the causes of a rail crash that killed at least 75 people, as rescue workers scoured wreckage for more bodies.
Still here? EU reality dims British demand on full membership
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Britain will “continue to play a full role until we leave”, Prime Minister Theresa May told fellow leaders at her first EU summit; but for many Britons in Brussels that is a forlorn hope.
Thousands of Chilean mistakenly put on wrong voter rolls
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chile’s electoral service has mistakenly listed hundreds of thousands of voters as living in towns far away from their actual place of residence, casting a minor pall over Sunday’s local elections.
Two Pakistan coast guard killed in Pakistan’s key CPEC port district
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Two Pakistan Coast Guard officers were gunned down in the southwestern province of Balochistan on Sunday in a district that is key to a Chinese-funded transport and energy project opposed by separatist militants, police sai…
Asian sailors freed by Somali pirates arrive in Kenya for flights home
NAIROBI (Reuters) – 26 Asian sailors freed after more than four years of captivity in a small fishing village in Somalia arrived in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Sunday, ahead of flights home, a maritime expert said.
Hungary’s Orban rejects ‘Sovietization’ by Brussels, defends nation state
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – At a commemoration of a 1956 anti-Communist uprising, Hungary’s right-wing leader Viktor Orban said his country must stand up to Europe’s “Sovietization” and defend its borders against mass migration.
Fighting in Somalia kills at least seven soldiers: officials
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – At least seven people were killed in weekend fighting between soldiers from two semi-autonomous regions of Somalia, officials from both sides said on Sunday, sparking fears of wider conflict.
Burundi police question U.S. journalist, keep her fixer in custody
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Police in Burundi arrested an American journalist and her Burundian fixer on Sunday, saying they had questioned both on suspicion of destroying criminal evidence before releasing only the journalist from custody.
Sanaa air raids resume as Yemen truce expires, say residents
SANAA (Reuters) – Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition attacked targets in Sanaa at dawn on Sunday, hours after a three-day truce in Yemen’s war expired, residents in the capital said.
Door to Lebanese presidency ‘wide open’, will vote for Aoun: Hezbollah
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, said on Sunday the door to electing a president was “wide open” and his members of parliament would vote for ally Michel Aoun at a parliamentary session at the end …
