Germany’s Merkel sets news conference, decision on candidacy expected
BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel will hold a news conference on Sunday evening, her conservative Christian Democratic (CDU) party said on Friday, with the German leader widely expected to announce her decision to run for a fourth term.
Thousands of Indonesians expected to rally against rising intolerance
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Thousands of Indonesians are expected to rally on Saturday against what they see as growing racial and religious intolerance in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country.
South Korea Park’s office says martial law claim ‘irresponsible demagoguery’
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s office on Friday dismissed a claim by the leader of the opposition that she was planning to declare martial law as “irresponsible demagoguery”.
U.N. investigators in area probing Aleppo convoy attack: Eliasson
GENEVA (Reuters) – U.N. investigators into a deadly attack on a U.N. convoy near Aleppo in September have been in the area collecting evidence and if they are able to identify who carried it out, the issue should be brought to the Security Council, U.N…
Suicide bombers kill two in northeast Nigeria’s Maiduguri: police
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Suicide bombers in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the heart of a seven-year-old insurgency by Islamist militant group Boko Haram, killed two people, the state police commissioner said on Friday.
Stalled luxury hotel, apartment projects in Afghan capital ‘lost $85 million’
KABUL (Reuters) – Stalled luxury hotel and apartment projects next to the U.S. Embassy in the Afghan capital may have lost American taxpayers $85 million and left the partially constructed buildings as security threats, a government watchdog said on Th…
For Syria rebels, Trump win adds to uncertain fate
BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) – On the eve of Donald Trump’s election victory, members of a Western-backed Syrian rebel group met U.S. officials to ask about the outlook for arms shipments they have received to fight President Bashar al-Assad.
Iraqi children dump Islamic State’s books of violence
QAYYARA, Iraq (Reuters) – The school walls have a fresh coat of paint and classrooms are crammed, but it will take longer to undo the damage done to thousands of Iraqi children who lived under Islamic State for more than two years.
China tells Mongolia to bar Dalai Lama visit
BEIJING (Reuters) – China told Mongolia to forbid the Dalai Lama’s planned arrival there on Friday, suggesting the Tibetan spiritual leader’s trip could harm Beijing’s relations with its northern neighbor.
Philippine dictator Marcos buried with military honors at heroes’ cemetery
MANILA (Reuters) – Former Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos was buried with military honors at a heroes’ cemetery in the capital Manila on Friday, almost 30 years after his death in Hawaii, amid small protests by human rights groups and a politician…
