Australian police respond to shooting, report of hostages at Sydney factory
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Three people have been shot and hostages may have been taken at a factory on the outskirts of Sydney, Australian police said on Monday, although it was not immediately clear what had sparked the incident.
At least seven dead in Mexico bus crash, 21 injured
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – At least seven people were killed and 21 injured when a bus came off the road in northwest Mexico on Sunday, local authorities said.
Pakistani lawyers’ group behind spike in blasphemy cases
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A little-known alliance of hundreds of lawyers in Pakistan is behind the rise in prosecutions for blasphemy, a crime punishable by death that goes to the heart of an ideological clash between reformers and religious conservatives….
Venezuela says investigating alleged killing of miners
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities said on Sunday they were investigating the alleged killings of a group of miners in the jungle state of Bolivar, following reports they were gruesomely murdered in a fight for control of a gold deposit.
At least nine dead, dozens injured in attacks against Kurdish quarter in Aleppo
AMMAN (Reuters) – At least nine civilians were killed and dozens were wounded on Sunday when mortars and rockets were fired by insurgents on a mainly Kurdish residential quarter in the northern city of Aleppo, the Syrian Kurdish YPG group and a monitor…
U.S. builds two air bases in Kurdish-controlled north Syria: Kurdish report
AMMAN (Reuters) – The United States has nearly finished setting up an air base in Kurdish-controlled northern Syria and was proceeding with the construction of a second base for dual military and civilian use, a Kurdish website said on Sunday.
Honduras governing party proposes president for re-election
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduras’ governing party on Sunday proposed the sitting president as their candidate for 2017 elections, a decision likely to stir fresh debate over re-election, a contentious issue at the heart of a coup just six years ago.
Defying ICC arrest warrant, Sudan’s Bashir arrives in Indonesia
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir arrived in Indonesia on Sunday, defying an international warrant for his arrest, to attend an Organisation of Islamic Cooperation summit, the Sudanese state news agency said.
Iraq PM Abadi secures Shi’ite support for cabinet change plan: state TV
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s main Shi’ite groups on Sunday voiced support for Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s plan to overhaul the government and combat corruption, state TV said.
Renzi says won’t send troops to Libya for now; freed Italian hostages fly home
MILAN/ROME (Reuters) – Prime Minister Matteo Renzi denied on Sunday suggestions by the U.S. ambassador in Rome that Italy could send up to 5,000 troops to Libya, saying conditions were not in place for military intervention in the former Italian colony…
