Gabon condemns Ping, warns French officials against ‘interference’
LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – The Gabon government on Tuesday accused President Ali Bongo’s challenger, Jean Ping, of trying to destabilize the country, and warned French ruling party officials against “interference” in its affairs.
Chinese embassy in Kyrgyzstan hit by suspected suicide car bomb
BISHKEK (Reuters) – A suspected suicide car bomber rammed the gates of the Chinese embassy in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek on Tuesday, killing the attacker and wounding at least three other people, officials said.
Venezuela arrests opposition activists ahead of anti-government rally
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela has arrested several opposition activists accused of plotting violence during an anti-government rally scheduled for Thursday, President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday, and opposition leaders slammed the arrests as intimid…
Russia questions report blaming Syrian government for gas attacks
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia questioned on Tuesday a report by the United Nations and a global chemical weapons watchdog that blamed Syrian government forces for two chlorine gas attacks, saying the U.N. Security Council could not use the conclusi…
Libya navy thought migrant rescuers were smugglers, fired warning shots: spokesman
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – A Libyan navy boat fired warning shots at a search and rescue vessel operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) earlier this month because it thought it was involved in smuggling, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
Car bomb outside Somali President’s Palace kills at least 10
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – At least 10 people, including soldiers and civilians, were killed in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Tuesday when a car bomb claimed by al Shabaab exploded outside the Presidential Palace and also damaged two nearby hotels, an offi…
U.S. lauds fragile respite between Turkey, Kurdish fighters in Syria
BEIRUT/ANKARA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States welcomed an apparent pause in fighting between Turkish-backed forces and Kurdish militia fighters in Syria on Tuesday, both of them members of the coalition fighting Islamic State, but it was far f…
Italy holds funeral for quake victims as search continues
AMATRICE, Italy (Reuters) – Italy held a state funeral in pouring rain on Tuesday for some of the victims of an earthquake which leveled mountain communities last week, killing at least 292 people.
Merkel admits mistakes made in Germany, EU with refugee crisis
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany and other European Union countries turned a blind eye to the refugee crisis building on its external borders for too long, Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a German newspaper interview to be published on Wednesday.
Oil fires cast black cloud over Iraqi town retaken from Islamic State
QAYYARA, Iraq (Reuters) – It gets darker earlier these days in the northern Iraqi town of Qayyara, which Islamic State militants abandoned about a week ago after setting fire to many of the region’s oil wells.
