Obama invites Pakistan PM Sharif for October visit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama has invited Pakistan’s prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, for a meeting at the White House on Oct. 22, the U.S. National Security Council said on Sunday.
U.S., allies conduct 20 air strikes against Islamic State: U.S. military
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and its allies conducted 20 air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Saturday, the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement on Sunday.
Saudi-led coalition air strike kills 36 Yemeni civilians: residents
SANAA (Reuters) – An air strike by warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition, which said it targeted a bomb-making factory, killed 36 civilians working at a bottling plant in the northern Yemeni province of Hajjah on Sunday, residents said.
Gunmen attack remote Pakistan airport, kill two engineers
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Gunmen stormed a remote airport in troubled southwestern Pakistan before dawn on Sunday, killing two engineers and destroying the facility’s radar system, authorities said.
Swazi police confirm 13 die in crash en route to royal ceremony
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Swaziland’s police have confirmed that 11 young women and two men died in a road accident at the weekend on their way to an annual ceremony where the king might have chosen one of the women as his wife.
Malaysia’s Mahathir calls for ‘people power’ movement to topple PM
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad, joining anti-government protesters for a second day on Sunday, called for a “people’s power” movement to topple Prime Minister Najib Razak over a financial scandal.
Germany calls for more European solidarity in refugee crisis
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany called on Sunday for other European Union states to take in more refugees, saying it could not go on absorbing a disproportionate share of the thousands of asylum seekers arriving in the bloc.
Scioli expands lead in Argentina presidential race, runoff seen
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Daniel Scioli, the leftist frontrunner in Argentina’s presidential election, widened his lead over his more business-friendly rival, but not enough to avoid a runoff, the first poll since Aug. 9 primaries showed on Sunday.
Greek leftists say they would apply bailout but fight to ease pain
ATHENS (Reuters) – The leftist Syriza party of former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will challenge Greece’s creditors on unresolved aspects of the nation’s bailout but implement unpopular reforms it has already agreed, it said on Sunday.
Migrants in Hungary seek traffickers on trip ‘from death to death’
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Ahmed, a Syrian man, and his wife wait with hundreds of other migrants at a railway station in central Budapest hoping to find a smuggler to take them to Germany, the final destination in an exhausting and dangerous journey.
