Suicide bomber kills 54 in Yemen attack: health ministry
ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed at least 54 people when he drove a car bomb into a militia compound in Aden on Monday, the health ministry said, in one of the deadliest attacks claimed by Islamic State in the southern Yemeni port city.
Rockets hit Saudi border town as Yemen war flares anew
NAJRAN, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – Yemeni Houthi forces are again firing rockets at this corner of southern Saudi Arabia, ending a lull of several weeks and complicating efforts to revive talks on ending Yemen’s 18-month-old civil war.
Fight for Syria’s Aleppo exposes limits of Russian air power
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s politically-sensitive and ultimately fruitless decision to launch bombing missions on Syria from Iranian soil has exposed the limits to its air power, leaving Moscow in need of a new strategy to advance its aims.
Trade dispute, policy divisions hang over Trudeau trip to China
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits Beijing this week seeking deeper ties with China but a dispute over canola exports, government divisions over China policy and the case of a detained citizen look set to limit his gains.
Renzi to present national plan to strengthen Italy’s quake defenses
ROME (Reuters) – Prime Minister Matteo Renzi promised on Monday to present a national plan to make Italy safer against earthquakes as rescuers continued to search for bodies after last week’s quake that killed at least 290 people.
Brazil’s Rousseff appears before Senate in impeachment trial
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Suspended President Dilma Rousseff appeared before Brazil’s Senate on Monday to defend herself from charges of breaking budget laws in an impeachment trial that is expected to remove her from office this week.
France’s Sarkozy says would change constitution to ban burkinis
PARIS (Reuters) – Former French president Nicholas Sarkozy said on Monday he would change the country’s constitution to ban full-body burkini swimsuits if he is re-elected to his former role in a vote next April.
Uzbek leader in intensive care after brain hemorrhage: daughter
ALMATY (Reuters) – Uzbekistan’s president Islam Karimov, who has built his authoritarian rule on warnings of a militant Islamist threat to the Central Asian region, suffered a brain hemorrhage on Saturday and is in stable condition in intensive care, h…
Philippines senator vows to press on in battle with ‘The Punisher’
MANILA (Reuters) – A Philippines senator who is leading an inquiry into the spate of killings unleashed by President Rodrigo Duterte’s ‘war on drugs’ vowed on Monday to press on despite bizarre accusations and insults raining on her from the country’s …
International experts in Egypt to inspect Metrojet wreckage
CAIRO (Reuters) – Experts from Russia and Germany are in Egypt to inspect the wreckage of a Russian passenger plane that crashed in Sinai last year killing all 224 people on board, the Egyptian-led investigating committee said on Monday.
