Gunmen kill eight Hazara miners in Afghanistan
KABUL (Reuters) – Unidentified gunmen killed eight members of Afghanistan’s Hazara minority who were working as miners in the northern province of Baghlan, a local government official said.
Brazil gang kills 31, many hacked to death, as prison violence explodes
RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Jailed members of Brazil’s most powerful drug gang killed 31 inmates at a penitentiary on Friday, decapitating and cutting out the hearts of most of them, in revenge for a separate prison massacre that left 56 dead …
Trump says Mexico would repay U.S. funds spent on border wall
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Friday Mexico would repay the United States for his planned border wall, a day after news emerged that his transition team was exploring getting the Republican-led Congress to vote to app…
Nigeria militants say readying fighters to hit ‘enemy’ in Niger Delta
LAGOS (Reuters) – A Nigerian militant group, which has claimed a wave of attacks on oil pipelines in the Niger Delta, said on Friday that it had asked its fighters to prepare to fight the “enemy” as authorities were not ready for dialogue.
Ivory Coast uprising by disgruntled soldiers spreads to other cities
BOUAKE, Ivory Coast (Reuters) – Disgruntled soldiers demanding salary increases and the payment of bonuses seized control of Ivory Coast’s second-largest city, Bouake, on Friday, in an uprising that spread to at least two other cities.
U.S. charges ex-Haiti coup leader with drug trafficking conspiracy
(Reuters) – The leader of a 2004 coup that toppled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and who had been wanted for more than a decade by U.S. authorities, was charged on Friday in the United States with engaging in drug trafficking and money laun…
Israel cuts $6 million in U.N. funding over settlements resolution
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Israel said on Friday it would cut $6 million in funding to the United Nations in 2017 in protest against a U.N. Security Council resolution that demanded an end to Israeli settlement building on land Palestinians want for an…
U.S. engineer admits to conspiring to produce nuclear material in China
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Chinese-American nuclear engineer pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiring to produce “special nuclear material” in China in violation of the U.S. Atomic Energy Act, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said.
Turkey dismisses 6,000 more workers in post-coup crackdown
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey dismissed more than 6,000 more police, civil servants and academics under emergency rule on Friday, continuing a purge in the wake of a failed coup last July, according to decrees issued in the Official Gazette.
German prosecutor investigates publisher of Axel Springer’s Bild
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German prosecutors on Friday said they had opened an investigation of Kai Diekmann, publisher of best-selling European tabloid newspaper Bild, days after parent company Axel Springer announced he had resigned.
