Venezuela’s steep prices, scarcities open the way for cardboard coffins
VALENCIA, Venezuela (Reuters) – When Venezuelan entrepreneurs Alejandro Blanchard and Elio Angulo decided to create cardboard coffins, they were looking for an ecological selling point to compete against classic wood and brass caskets.
Colombia’s FARC rebels face tricky return under peace deal
CORDILLERA ORIENTAL, Colombia (Reuters) – After three decades fighting in the remote mountains of Colombia for a Marxist revolution, 60-year-old FARC rebel Cesar Gonzalez must now return to a society he barely recognizes.
South African police deny targeting finance minister Gordhan: report
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African police denied being part of a political conspiracy targeting Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, City Press newspaper said on Friday, after the main opposition party described the police investigation into Gordhan as…
Kerry, Lavrov push to finalize Syria deal, evacuees leave besieged Daraya
GENEVA (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russia’s Sergei Lavrov sought on Friday to finalize an agreement on fighting Islamist militants in Syria as the first evacuees left a besieged Damascus surbub under a plan which has aroused the …
Norway reschedules appeal against mass murderer Breivik to January
OSLO (Reuters) – Norway’s appeal case against a legal ruling that found the state had violated the human rights of mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik will most likely be held in January, a court said on Friday.
Philippine government, communist rebels sign ceasefire deal
OSLO (Reuters) – The Philippines government and Maoist-led rebels agreed indefinite ceasefires on Friday as part of an accord to accelerate efforts to end a conflict that has lasted almost five decades and killed at least 40,000 people.
Judge rejects prosecutor request to appeal Pistorius sentence
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A South African judge dismissed on Friday a request by state prosecutors to appeal Oscar Pistorius’ six-year murder sentence, the latest twist in a trial that has captured global headlines.
Israeli troops kill Palestinian who ran toward them, army says
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli soldiers on Friday shot and killed an apparently unarmed Palestinian who ran toward their position in a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank, and the incident was under review, a military spokeswoman said.
Suicide truck bomb blamed on PKK kills 11 police in Turkey
ANKARA/KARKAMIS, Turkey (Reuters) – A suicide truck bombing at a police headquarters in Turkey’s largely Kurdish southeast killed at least 11 and wounded dozens on Friday, two days after Turkey launched an incursion against Islamic State and Kurdish mi…
Hungarian PM Orban calls for joint European army
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday the European Union should start setting up a joint European army.
