Pentagon chief expects more raids similar to Iraq rescue
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S.-backed military operation that freed 70 hostages who had been held by Islamic State in Iraq produced a cache of intelligence, and U.S. forces supporting Iraqi troops are likely to undertake more raids in the future, U.S. D…
Turkish court sentences 244 to jail over 2013 protests: newspaper
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A Turkish court on Friday sentenced 244 people to up to 14 months in jail over protests in 2013 that began as a bid to stop the redevelopment of an Istanbul park and spiraled into the worst political unrest for years, a major newsp…
Peru probes possible sex abuse by founder of Catholic society
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s attorney general has launched an investigation to determine whether the founder and former head of an elite Catholic society sexually and physically abused children and former members of the secretive group.
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.
