Terrified families emerge from rubble after battle of Ramadi
RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) – Terrified families waved white flags as they emerged from homes reduced to rubble in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, where government troops were still battling Islamic State fighters holed up on Friday, five days after the army reca…
Eight killed in Guatemala prison fight: official
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – A fight at an overcrowded Guatemalan prison killed at least eight prisoners and wounded 20, the country’s interior minister said on Friday.
Suicide bombing hits restaurant in Afghan capital Kabul
KABUL (Reuters) – A suicide attack on a French restaurant in the Afghan capital Kabul on Friday killed a 12-year-old boy and wounded more than a dozen other people, officials said.
Two shot dead in Tel Aviv, Israeli Arab named as fugitive suspect
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – A gunman identified by relatives as a member of Israel’s Arab minority killed two people on a bustling thoroughfare in central Tel Aviv on Friday before fleeing, an incident that ramped up tensions after three months of Palestinian…
Terrified families emerge from rubble after battle of Ramadi
RAMADI, Iraq (Reuters) – Terrified families waved white flags as they emerged from homes reduced to rubble in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, where government troops were still battling Islamic State fighters holed up on Friday, five days after the army reca…
Rival Taliban factions agree on ceasefire; leader Mansour absent
PESHAWAR (Reuters) – Rival factions of the Afghan Taliban agreed to stop deadly infighting, officials said, but tensions remained over the status of new leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, who has not been seen since reportedly being shot last month.
Man drives car at troops protecting mosque in southern France
PARIS (Reuters) – A soldier and an elderly Muslim man were slightly injured when a man drove his car at troops protecting a mosque in Valence in southern France on Friday, officials said.
Defiant Iran pledges to ramp up missile program, in challenge for Obama
DUBAI (Reuters) – A series of Iranian officials vowed on Friday to expand Tehran’s missile capabilities, a challenge to the United States which has threatened to impose new sanctions even as the vast bulk of its measures against Iran are due to be lift…
Brazil’s Rousseff signs budget law, vetoes congressional amendments
SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has overruled more than 50 amendments made by lawmakers in the nation’s budget guidelines law for this year, including reductions to her flagship social program and a ban on state …
Turkish presidency says Erdogan’s Hitler comments misconstrued
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The Turkish presidency said on Friday comments by President Tayyip Erdogan about the system of governance in Hitler’s Germany had been misinterpreted and that he had not suggested it was an example of an effective presidential syst…
