Weakened Hurricane Matthew still deadly as it buffets U.S. Southeast
CHARLESTON, S.C./SAVANNAH, Ga. (Reuters) – Hurricane Matthew slammed into South Carolina on Saturday, packing a diminished yet still potent punch after killing almost 900 people in Haiti and causing major flooding and widespread power outages as it ski…
Medics dash to rural Haiti as cholera kills 13 in Matthew’s wake
PORT SALUT, Haiti/PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Cholera has killed at least 13 people in southwest Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, officials said on Saturday, as government teams fanned out across the hard-hit southwestern tip of the country to re…
German police hunt Syrian-born man feared to be planning bomb attack
BERLIN (Reuters) – German police hunting for a Syrian-born man suspected of planning a bomb attack found explosives in an apartment they raided while looking for him on Saturday, officials said.
Attack on mourners in Yemen kills more than 140, say local health officials
SANAA (Reuters) – Saudi-led warplanes struck a funeral at a community hall in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, the country’s Houthi-run administration said on Saturday, but the coalition denied any role in the attack. More than 140 mourners were killed, accor…
Explosion kills Tuareg leader outside north Mali U.N. camp
KIDAL, Mali (Reuters) – A Tuareg militant leader in the volatile north Malian city of Kidal was killed on Saturday when his car exploded barely 300 meters from a U.N. base where he had been talking with French and U.N. troops, a Reuters witness and off…
Scottish nationalists say UK has ‘no mandate’ for hard Brexit
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May has no democratic mandate to pursue a ‘hard Brexit’ that would cut political and trade ties with the European Union, the Scottish National Party said ahead of its annual conference later this week.
Far from Hurricane Matthew, a Haitian crisis flares in Tijuana
TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) – The havoc wreaked by Hurricane Matthew has strengthened the resolve of thousands of Haitians stuck on the U.S.-Mexico border to make it to the United States even though new rules mean they will likely be deported to their sh…
Two U.S. troops injured by roadside bomb in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two U.S. servicemembers were injured by a roadside improvised explosive device in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday morning, a U.S. defense official said.
Syrian government, allies advance as Russia vetoes U.N. demand
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Russia vetoed a French-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution on Saturday that would have demanded an immediate end to air strikes and military flights over Syria’s Aleppo city and called for a truce and humanitarian aid …
Kuwait arrests suspected Islamist after truck attack on Americans
KUWAIT (Reuters) – Kuwaiti security forces have detained a suspected Islamist militant who rammed a truck believed to be carrying explosives into a car carrying five Americans, state news agency KUNA reported on Saturday.
