Algerian army kills militants behind Krechba gas plant attack: source
ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algeria’s army has killed four militants authorities believe were responsible for Friday’s attack on the Krechba gas facility operated by state oil company Sonatrach with BP and Statoil, a security source said on Sunday.
Turkish police on high alert in deserted streets after bombing
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Police were on high alert across Turkey on Sunday after the previous day’s attack by a suicide bomber in Istanbul’s most popular shopping district, killing three Israelis and an Iranian, with dozens more people wounded in the blast…
Niger votes in presidential run-off amid opposition boycott
NIAMEY (Reuters) – Niger voted on Sunday in a presidential run-off which incumbent President Mahamadou Issoufou is heavily favored to win after his jailed opponent was flown out of the country for medical reasons and an opposition coalition called for …
Thinker, soldier, business boss: many faces of Germany’s anti-immigrant AfD
BERLIN (Reuters) – A car radiator repair boss, a longtime soldier and an economics professor – they are unlikely bedfellows leading the charge of an anti-immigration party that has come from nowhere to disrupt the cozy, stable world of German coalition…
Congolese is highest-ranking politician set for Hague court verdict
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A former Congolese vice-president becomes the most senior political leader ever to face judgment before the International Criminal Court on Monday, when judges rule on whether he committed war crimes in the Central African Republi…
Former official adds to allegations against South Africa’s Zuma: report
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Pressure on South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma intensified on Sunday when in a newspaper interview, a former high-ranking official added to mounting allegations that Zuma had a corrupt relationship with a prominent family of b…
U.N. staffers pull out of Western Sahara mission: state media
RABAT (Reuters) – Dozens of United Nations international staffers pulled out of their Western Sahara mission on Sunday after Morocco demanded they leave because of Ban Ki-Moon’s remarks about the disputed territory, Morocco’s state news agency and a so…
Stuck in hostels, Spain’s new wave of politicians lament deadlock
MADRID (Reuters) – Sitting around in hostels was not what Spain’s new generation of politicians expected when they entered parliament on a wave of enthusiasm after a national election in December broke traditional parties’ grip over politics.
Plane crashes in Russia, all 62 people on board killed
MOSCOW/DUBAI (Reuters) – All 62 people aboard a passenger jet flying from Dubai to southern Russia were killed when their plane crashed on its second attempt to land at Rostov-on-Don airport on Saturday, Russian officials said.
Suicide bomber kills four, wounds 36 in Istanbul shopping district
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed four people on Saturday in a busy shopping district in the heart of Istanbul, pushing the death toll from four separate suicide attacks in Turkey this year to more than 80.
