Chilean senator named presidential candidate of center-left party
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chilean journalist-turned senator Alejandro Guillier accepted the presidential nomination of the center-left Radical Party on Saturday with promises to deepen education reforms and revamp the private pension system.
Zuma’s ex-wife given boost in South Africa leadership race
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The chances of South African President Jacob Zuma’s ex-wife, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, becoming the next leader of the African National Congress were given a boost on Saturday with the endorsement of the ruling party’s women’s di…
Iraq says deal reached over Bashiqa, Turkey says issue will be solved
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Saturday an agreement had been reached with Turkey over an Iraqi demand that Turkish forces withdraw from the Bashiqa camp near Mosul in the north of the country, Iraqi state TV reported…
Saudi prince readies strategy if clerics oppose reforms: report
RIYADH (Reuters) – The young prince leading Saudi Arabia’s drive for economic reform has laid out a three-pronged strategy to avoid a backlash from any religious conservatives opposed to his plan, according to remarks reported by Foreign Affairs magazi…
Three killed in Somalia tea shop blast, soldiers among casualties
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – At least three people were killed and 11 others injured when an explosion ripped a small restaurant popular with soldiers in the Somali capital on Saturday evening, police and local officials said.
Former PM Soares who ushered in democracy in Portugal dies at 92
LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s former president and prime minister Mario Soares, who was a central figure in the country’s return to democracy in the 1970s after decades of rightist dictatorship, died on Saturday aged 92, doctors said.
Fuel truck blast kills dozens in north Syrian border town
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A fuel truck exploded in the busy center of a rebel-held town near Syria’s border with Turkey on Saturday, killing dozens of people and wounding dozens more, several sources said.
Thousands demonstrate in Paris over murder of Kurdish militants
PARIS (Reuters) – Several thousand people demonstrated in Paris on Saturday to demand justice and a speedier investigation into the 2013 murder of three Kurdish activists.
Iraqi forces close in on Tigris in Islamic State stronghold Mosul
MOSUL, Iraq/BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi special forces closed in on the Tigris river that runs through central Mosul on Saturday, advancing in parallel with other troops and forcing Islamic State to retreat in its last major stronghold in the country.
Two ‘dangerous terrorists’ killed in Saudi security operation: agency
DUBAI (Reuters) – Two “dangerous terrorists” were killed in a Saudi security operation in the capital Riyadh on Saturday, the Saudi state news agency SPA reported, citing an Interior Ministry spokesman.
