Suicide bomb in Afghan capital targets journalists, kills seven people
KABUL (Reuters) – A Taliban suicide car bomber targeted a minibus carrying journalists working for a private Afghan television channel on Wednesday, killing seven employees during evening rush hour close to the national parliament in Kabul, officials s…
Finland, Norway bridle at migrant flows from Russia
HELSINKI/OSLO (Reuters) – Finland and Norway sought to ease migrant flows from Russia, as tensions over Europe’s refugee crisis spread to the continent’s northernmost frontiers.
Recent strike targets Mosul ‘cash collection point’: U.S. military
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S.-led coalition air strikes hit a “cash collection point” in the Islamic State’s northern Iraqi stronghold of Mosul on Monday, bringing the total strikes on these targets to nine in Iraq and Syria, a U.S. military spokesman said.
Families return to Damascus suburb under local ceasefire: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Around 4,000 people returned to a neighborhood in the south of Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday as part of a local ceasefire agreed more than a year ago, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
In a reversal, Cuba tries price controls to tame food inflation
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba is backtracking on some key agricultural reforms and experimenting with restoring price controls in the face of public demands that the government tame rising food costs.
Magnitude 6.1 earthquake jolts central China
LONDON (Reuters) – A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck central China on Wednesday, the U.S Geological Survey said.
Egypt: who’s afraid of January 25?
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian activists Ali al-Khouly and Mohamed Ali had just sat down at a Cairo coffeeshop when plainclothes officers grabbed them and hauled them off to a police station. What they most wanted to know was: what are your plans next Mond…
Ten wounded, including opposition politicians, in southeast Turkey shooting
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Ten people were wounded in Turkey’s mostly Kurdish southeast on Wednesday when their group, which included two opposition politicians, came under fire while rescuing people hurt in earlier clashes, officials said.
Marijuana Inc. eyes Mexico as drug liberalization looms
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Many top companies cashing in on legal cannabis are considering a bet on Mexico after a Supreme Court decision raised hopes for a legalization of medical and recreational marijuana in a country reeling from years of gruesome dru…
Unlikely outsider Juppé is threat to Sarkozy, Hollande’s 2017 election bids
PARIS (Reuters) – He tops French opinion polls and features on the front page of hipster magazines.
