Islamic State attacks Syrian army supply route to Aleppo: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamic State fighters took control of a section of road southeast of Aleppo on Friday, threatening the Syrian army’s only supply route into the city, a group that monitors the civil war said.
Witness in U.S. terror trial of London cleric spared prison
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former follower of radical London imam Abu Hamza al-Masri avoided prison on Friday after providing what a U.S. prosecutor said was over a decade of “unprecedented” cooperation in terrorism investigations that led to the convictio…
Rockets kill six at protest in Libya’s Benghazi against U.N. deal
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – At least six people were killed and dozens more injured in Libya’s second city Benghazi on Friday when rockets hit a protest against a U.N. proposal for a unity government to end a political crisis, medical sources said.
Suicide bomber kills 16 at procession for Shi’ite holiday in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed 16 people in Pakistan on Friday at a procession in Sindh province for the Shi’ite Muslim holiday of Ashura, police said.
At least 43 killed in French bus crash, worst in decades
PUISSEGUIN, France (Reuters) – At least 41 people on a bus carrying elderly day-trippers were killed early on Friday when the bus hit a truck head-on and caught fire, in France’s worst road crash in more than 30 years.
South Africa’s Zuma caves in on fees amid violent student protests
PRETORIA (Reuters) – South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma on Friday ruled out university fee increases next year after a week of angry protests by students across the country in the first signs of the post-apartheid ‘Born Free’ generation flexing its mu…
Bombings kill at least 37 in northeast Nigeria: officials
MAIDUGURI/YOLA, Nigeria (Reuters) – At least 37 people were killed and 107 wounded on Friday in two bomb attacks at mosques in Nigeria’s restive northeast, where Boko Haram has been trying to carve out an Islamic state, officials and medics said.
U.N. Security Council not respecting all members’ views: Venezuela
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Venezuela complained on Friday that the United Nations Security Council was not respecting the views of its non-permanent members, after abstaining on a vote for at least the seventh time this year and saying it was shut out …
U.N. plans Yemen peace talks soon, warns of aid obstruction
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations envoy to Yemen was arranging face-to-face negotiations between the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels but warned that a “disastrous humanitarian situation” has left most of the country in dire need.
Two Iranian fighters killed in Syria: Iranian agencies
ANKARA (Reuters) – Two members of a unit of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) have been killed in Syria, including an ex-bodyguard for Iran’s former president, Iranian media reported on Friday.
