Protests flare over Venezuela cash chaos; three deaths reported
EL PINAL/CIUDAD GUAYANA, Venezuela (Reuters) – Protests and looting broke out in parts of Venezuela on Friday due to a lack of cash after the socialist government suddenly pulled the nation’s largest banknote from circulation in the midst of a brutal e…
Poland’s Kaczynski leaves parliament after police remove protesters
WARSAW (Reuters) – The head of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, left parliament in the early hours of Saturday after the police forcefully removed protesters blocking the exit from parliament, television footage showed.
Obama points finger at Putin for hacks during U.S. election
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Friday strongly suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin personally authorized the computer hacks of Democratic Party emails that American intelligence officials say were aimed at helping Republic…
Prison Officers regain control over rioting inmates in UK jail disturbance
BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) – Prison officers regained control of inmates at a prison in Birmingham, England on Friday more than 12 hours after rioting broke out among some 300 prisoners.
Philippines’ Duterte: ‘bye-bye America’ and we don’t need your money
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told the United States on Saturday to prepare for repeal of an agreement on deployment of troops and equipment for exercises, declaring “bye-bye America”, and we don’t need your money.
Macedonia’s election commission orders re-run in one polling station
SKOPJE (Reuters) – Macedonia’s state election commission said on Friday it had annulled ballots cast at a single polling station and ordered a new vote there after accepting that one woman had been prevented from voting in Sunday’s parliamentary electi…
U.S. offers $25 million reward for information on Islamic State leader
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Friday more than doubled its previous reward for information on Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, offering $25 million for information that would help locate, arrest or convict the head of the jihadi…
Obama says world ‘united in horror’ at bloodshed in Aleppo by Assad, allies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday the world is “united in horror” at the fighting in Syria’s Aleppo and that President Bashar al-Assad and his allies were responsible for atrocities including reported massacres of civili…
Canadian diplomats visit pastor imprisoned in North Korea
(In this Dec. 15 story, deletes reference in second paragraph to Lim being only Western citizen known to be held currently in North Korea.)
As Gambians lose fear, President Jammeh’s isolation grows
BANJUL (Reuters) – Lawyers, trade unions, teachers and journalists have joined a growing chorus of demands for Gambian President Yahya Jammeh to accept his defeat in a Dec. 1 election, as people lose their fear of the man who has ruled them for the pas…
