Displaced South Sudanese appeal to U.N. to urgently send more troops
JUBA (Reuters) – Displaced civilians and religious leaders in war-torn South Sudan appealed to the U.N. Security Council on Saturday to urgently deploy extra foreign troops as government ministers questioned whether more peacekeepers were needed in the…
Venezuela’s Maduro jeered, dozens briefly detained: activists
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities briefly rounded up more than 30 people on Margarita island for heckling President Nicolas Maduro, activists said on Saturday, in what appeared to be a rare public confrontation with the unpopular leader.
Tension eases in Gabon capital after riots over disputed election
LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – Tension eased in Gabon’s capital on Saturday after days of deadly rioting triggered by an announcement that President Ali Bongo narrowly won re-election in a vote the opposition said was stolen.
Thousands of Kurds protest against Erdogan in Cologne
COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) – About 25,000 Kurdish supporters demonstrated peacefully in Cologne on Saturday against Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, chanting in German, “neither military coup nor civilian dictatorship.”
France’s Le Pen vows to hold referendum on EU if elected
BRACHAY, France (Reuters) – France’s far-right National Front party leader, Marine Le Pen, vowed on Saturday to hold a referendum on whether France stays in or leaves the European Union if she wins the 2017 presidential election.
EU, Turkey test waters for rapprochement after failed coup
BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – The European Union and Turkey tested the waters for a political rapprochement on Saturday with a first meeting between the bloc’s 28 foreign ministers and a senior Ankara official after a failed coup in Turkey in July strained th…
Philippines blames IS-linked Abu Sayyaf for bomb in Duterte’s Davao
DAVAO, Philippines (Reuters) – Philippine police blamed Islamic State-linked rebels on Saturday for a bombing that killed 14 people in President Rodrigo Duterte’s hometown and dealt a blow to the firebrand leader’s bloody crackdown on narcotics and mil…
Clashes overnight in southeast Turkey kill eight security force members: sources
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Eight members of Turkey’s security forces and 11 militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) were killed in clashes overnight in southeast Turkey, security sources said on Saturday.
One killed as bomb explodes on train in southern Thailand
BANGKOK (Reuters) – One railway worker was killed and three people were wounded when a bomb exploded on a train in Thailand’s southern town of Pattani on Saturday, police said, a day after peace talks between the Thai government and Muslim separatists….
EU-U.S. trade talks seem unbalanced, may need pause: Belgian PM
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel on Saturday became the latest European politician to voice doubts over the possibility of the EU agreeing a major new trade deal with the United States, saying in a newspaper interview that neg…
