Blasts near hospital in Syria’s Homs city kill 16
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Twin explosions in a government-controlled neighborhood of Syria’s Homs city killed at least 16 people and wounded scores more on Saturday, a group monitoring the war and state media said, in an attack claimed by the hardline Islamic…
Mexico’s migrants in focus for pope’s first visit
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis will end his first visit to Mexico next year with a large Mass at the fairgrounds in the border town of Ciudad Juarez, church officials said on Saturday.
Brazil police arrest four in corruption probe of water project
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian federal police arrested four people on Friday including the chief executive of engineering group OAS in a new probe of suspected price-fixing and kickbacks on a long-delayed project to divert water to the drought-prone N…
Indonesian energy minister bemoans bad luck
JAKARTA (Reuters) – It’s not always easy being a reformist minister in Indonesia, as Sudirman Said, the country’s energy minister, made plain in remarks on Friday.
Saudi Prince Alwaleed calls Trump a disgrace
DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has called Donald Trump a disgrace to the United States following his call for a ban on Muslims entering the country, and demanded the Republican front-runner withdraw from the U.S. presiden…
Venezuela’s Maduro sees ‘tense’ post-vote power struggle
CARACAS (Reuters) – Smarting from last weekend’s election defeat, President Nicolas Maduro warned on Saturday of a “large-scale crisis” in Venezuela as a showdown looms between the socialist government and opposition-led legislature.
Swiss say arrest two Syrians, probing possible Islamist ties
GENEVA (Reuters) – Two Syrian men were arrested in Geneva on Friday after traces of explosives were found in their car, Switzerland’s attorney general said on Saturday, confirming media reports.
Al Qaeda’s Syria wing says truces only benefit government
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Truces between the Syrian government and rebels only benefit Damascus, the leader of one of the largest insurgent groups in the war said in comments broadcast on Saturday, in which he also criticized a recent opposition meeting as a …
France to protect Banksy mural of Steve Jobs in Calais migrant camp
LILLE, France (Reuters) – British graffiti artist Banksy’s mural of late Apple founder Steve Jobs as a refugee on a wall in the Calais migrant camp and two other Banksy works in other parts of the city will be protected, local authorities said on Satur…
North Korea slams U.S. over U.N. meeting on human rights ‘racket’
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – North Korea on Saturday blasted the United States for organizing a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on alleged human rights abuses in the reclusive Asian country that has been accused by a U.N. inquiry of abuses comparabl…
