Thai police find more unexploded bombs following coordinated blasts
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai police over the weekend found and defused five explosive devices that had failed to detonate when an as yet unidentified group carried out a series of deadly bomb attacks on popular tourist spots late last week.
Clashes flare southwest of South Sudan’s capital
JUBA (Reuters) – Fighting flared in South Sudan late on Saturday southwest of the capital between forces loyal to the president and those backing the opposition, after clashes last month raised fears of a slide back into civil war.
Venezuelans cross reopened border to Colombia for food, medicine
SAN ANTONIO, Venezuela (Reuters) – Thousands of Venezuelans were welcomed to Colombia by a military band early on Saturday morning as the two countries’ borders were officially reopened after being closed by Venezuela a year ago.
Undermining China: towns sink after mines close
HELIN, China (Reuters) – Deep in the coal heartlands of northern Shanxi province, people in Helin village are fighting a losing battle as the ground beneath them crumbles: patching up cracks, rebuilding walls and filling in sinkholes caused by decades …
On 90th birthday, Fidel Castro thanks well-wishers, appears at gala
HAVANA (Reuters) – Fidel Castro made a rare public appearance on Saturday at his 90th birthday gala, after the leader of the 1959 revolution thanked fellow Cubans for their well wishes and lambasted his old foe the United States in a column carried by …
Turkey says no compromise with Washington on cleric’s extradition
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey will not compromise with Washington over the extradition of the Islamic cleric it accuses of orchestrating a failed coup, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Saturday, warning of rising anti-Americanism if the United Stat…
Mali aims to save $50 million by striking 13,000 ‘ghost’ workers off payroll
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Mali, one of the world’s poorest countries, has identified 13,000 fictitious workers on the state payroll who had cost a total of 30 billion CFA francs ($50 million), according to the information minister.
Thousands return to Manbij after IS militants flee city
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Thousands of displaced residents streamed back into the northern Syrian town of Manbij on Saturday after U.S.-backed fighters ousted the last Islamic State militants from their former stronghold, residents and U.S. allies said.
U.S.-backed forces wrest control of Syria’s Manbij from Islamic State
BEIRUT (Reuters) – U.S.-backed forces have seized full control of the northern Syrian city of Manbij near the Turkish border after the last remaining Islamic State fighters, who had been using civilians as human shields, left, a spokesman for the group…
U.S. drone kills Islamic State leader for Afghanistan, Pakistan: officials
PESHAWAR, Pakistan/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The leader of Islamic State’s branch in Afghanistan and Pakistan was killed in a U.S. drone strike on July 26, a Pentagon spokesman said on Friday after the Afghan ambassador to Pakistan announced the news to R…
