Pensioner killed in Venezuela supermarket melee, opposition says
CARACAS (Reuters) – An 80-year-old Venezuelan woman died, possibly from trampling, in a scrum outside a state supermarket selling subsidized goods, the opposition and media said on Friday.
U.N.’s Ban defends China parade trip after Japanese concern: Xinhua
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese state news agency Xinhua said on Saturday U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has defended his trip to Beijing next week to watch a military parade marking the end of World War Two following concern from Japan.
U.S. confirms Islamic State computer expert killed in air strike
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military confirmed on Friday that a British hacker who was one of the Islamic State movement’s top computer experts and active in encouraging people abroad to carry out “lone wolf” attacks was killed in Syria by a U.S. a…
Venezuela’s Maduro to visit China, Vietnam for finance deals
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday said he will visit China and Vietnam to sign economic and financing deals, as the OPEC nation struggles to make ends meet at a time of low oil prices.
Greece’s Syriza to win election but face setback, polls show
ATHENS (Reuters) – Former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ leftist Syriza will emerge as the biggest party in next month’s election but without the majority it was hoping for, the first opinion polls since he resigned last week showed on Friday.
Libyan drownings, truck of corpses drive up migrant toll
EISENSTADT, Austria/TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Austria said on Friday 71 refugees, including a baby girl, were found dead in an abandoned freezer truck, while Libya recovered the bodies of 105 migrants washed ashore after their overcrowded boat sank on its wa…
Syrians fear for relatives after Austrian migrant tragedy
VIENNA (Reuters) – Distraught over missing relatives en route from Syria to western Europe, two young men waited anxiously on Friday for news outside Vienna’s forensic department, where some of the bodies of 71 dead migrants found in Austria have been brought.
Greece’s Syriza to win election but face setback, polls show
ATHENS (Reuters) – Former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ leftist Syriza will emerge as the biggest party in next month’s election but without the majority it was hoping for, the first opinion polls since he resigned last week showed on Friday.
Iraqi PM orders easier access to Baghdad’s Green Zone as protests surge
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Friday ordered security forces to ease access to Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone and main streets, in an apparent bid to improve daily life for ordinary Iraqis as fresh protests erupted across …
New Turkish cabinet includes opposition, but little policy change seen
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu appointed nationalist and pro-Kurdish opposition politicians to an interim power-sharing cabinet on Friday, but left his finance and economy ministers unchanged in a team dominated by ruling par…
