Opposition candidate Macri leads Argentina’s presidential election
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Conservative opposition candidate Mauricio Macri took a comfortable early lead in Argentina’s presidential election on Sunday and three exit polls showed him on course to win after promising business-friendly economic reforms.
Venezuela opposition says shots fired at election campaign caravan
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition said on Sunday shots were fired at one of its candidates’ campaign caravan in a poor neighborhood of Caracas amid rising national tensions over next month’s parliamentary election.
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish leader unharmed after bullet hits car: party
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition leader Selahattin Demirtas was unharmed after his car was hit by a bullet on Sunday in an apparent assassination attempt, a spokesman for his political party said.
Slow road from Kabul highlights China’s challenge in Afghanistan
KABUL (Reuters) – A new road linking the Afghan capital with a trade hub near Pakistan has been stuck in the slow lane since a state-owned Chinese company took the contract to build it two years ago, bedeviled by militant attacks and accusations of mis…
Cyprus quizes group suspected of Islamist link
NICOSIA (Reuters) – Police in Cyprus were questioning six French-speaking men on Sunday amid suspicions three of them had links with Islamist groups, authorities said.
Iraq grounds northern flights over missiles launched at Syria
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq said it was suspending flights between Baghdad and the northern cities of Erbil and Sulaimaniya for two days starting on Monday due to military traffic from Russia’s air campaign in neighboring Syria.
French police extend questioning of suspect after attacks
PARIS (Reuters) – Investigators on Sunday extended into a fifth day the detention of a man arrested on Wednesday outside the building where the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks died, the prosecutor’s office said.
Israeli fatally stabbed, three Palestinian attackers killed in West Bank: police
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli woman was stabbed to death and three Palestinian attackers were killed in a series of incidents in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Sunday, police said, as an eight-week-old wave of bloodshed showed no signs of dying d…
Iran says Washington Post reporter Rezaian sentenced to prison
DUBAI (Reuters) – An Iranian court has sentenced Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian to a prison term, the state news agency said on Sunday quoting a judiciary spokesman, a case that is a sensitive issue in contentious U.S.-Iranian relations.
Motorcycle bomb explodes in Kurdish-held Syrian town, three dead: monitor
AMMAN (Reuters) – A bomb placed on a motorcycle exploded on Sunday in a Kurdish-held Syrian town along the Turkish border, killing at least three people and wounding 20 others, a monitoring group said.
