U.S. envoy says Washington to use all means to pressure North Korea
SEOUL (Reuters) – Washington will use all available means outside the U.N. Security Council to isolate North Korea over its nuclear weapons program and counter its growing threat to world order, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations said on Sunday.
No casualties reported after China refinery blast
BEIJING (Reuters) – Equipment at an oil refinery in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing caught fire and exploded on Sunday, state media said, in the country’s latest industrial accident.
Russian police shoot dead eight militants in Chechnya clashes: Ifax
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Police shot dead eight militants in Chechnya in southern Russia around midnight on Saturday after the men, traveling in two cars, opened fire when asked to stop at a checkpoint, the Interfax news agency reported on Sunday.
Bangladesh kills 12 Islamists blamed for cafe attack
DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladeshi security forces on Saturday killed 12 members of an Islamist militant group blamed for a deadly attack on a cafe in Dhaka in July, senior officials said.
Seven killed in Afghan helicopter crash: defence ministry
KABUL (Reuters) – An Afghan air force helicopter crashed in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least seven people on board, said Afghan Defence Ministry officials who described the crash as an accident.
One killed, thousands without power as storms hit Australia
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Wind gusts and storms lashed the Australian state of Victoria on Sunday, killing one woman and disrupting power supplies to more than 100,000 people.
Medics dash to rural Haiti as cholera kills 13 in Matthew’s wake
PORT SALUT, Haiti/PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Cholera has killed at least 13 people in southwest Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, officials said on Saturday, as government teams fanned out across the hard-hit southwestern tip of the country to re…
Weakened Hurricane Matthew still deadly as it buffets U.S. Southeast
CHARLESTON, S.C./SAVANNAH, Ga. (Reuters) – Hurricane Matthew slammed into South Carolina on Saturday, packing a diminished yet still potent punch after killing almost 900 people in Haiti and causing major flooding and widespread power outages as it ski…
German police hunt Syrian-born man feared to be planning bomb attack
BERLIN (Reuters) – German police hunting for a Syrian-born man suspected of planning a bomb attack found explosives in an apartment they raided while looking for him on Saturday, officials said.
Attack on mourners in Yemen kills more than 140, say local health officials
SANAA (Reuters) – Saudi-led warplanes struck a funeral at a community hall in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, the country’s Houthi-run administration said on Saturday, but the coalition denied any role in the attack. More than 140 mourners were killed, accor…
