French police release seven people picked up during raid last week
PARIS (Reuters) – French police have released seven of the eight people rounded up when they raided a flat last Wednesday where the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks was hiding, a judicial source said.
Magnitude 5.5 quake hits Chilean coast: USGS
(Reuters) – A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck the central Chilean coast on Saturday, south of the town of Coquimbo, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Western leaders agreed to extend Russia sanctions by six months: diplomat
(Reuters) – Western leaders who met on the margins of last week’s Group of 20 summit in Turkey agreed to extend sanctions imposed on Russia for its intervention in Ukraine by six months until July of next year, a senior European diplomat told Reuters.
Honduras detains Syrian, Pakistanis traveling illegally: police
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduran police arrested a Syrian woman and two Pakistani men on Saturday after determining they were traveling illegally and presumably en route to the United States, authorities said.
Hong Kong votes year after protests in test of appetite for democracy
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong votes in district level elections on Sunday that will mark the first real test of public sentiment since pro-democracy protests crippled parts of the Chinese-controlled city last year.
School dropout rate rising as drought boosts hunger in Zimbabwe
LUPANE, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Thabiso Dube isn’t helping his mother at home, the scrawny 8-year-old is working alongside her, doing odd jobs in exchange for food.
Bangladesh executes two opposition leaders for 1971 war crimes
DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh executed two opposition leaders on Sunday for war crimes committed during the 1971 war to break away from Pakistan, a senior police official said, in a move likely to draw an angry reaction from supporters.
Putin says seeks global anti-terrorism fight after 19 killed in Mali attack
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday he wanted global cooperation to combat terrorism after Islamist militants killed 19 people, including six Russians, in an attack on a luxury hotel in Mali
Four wounded in stabbing attack in southern Israel: police
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Four people were wounded in a stabbing attack in the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Gat on Saturday in what police said bore the hallmarks of previous stabbings by Palestinians.
Female suicide bombers in Cameroon attack that kills eight
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Four civilians were killed in northern Cameroon on Saturday in a suicide bomb assault by suspected Boko Haram militants in which three female attackers and one man blew themselves up, security sources said.
