Putin to meet Chinese, Turkish, British, Saudi leaders and IMF head at G20
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold bilateral meetings at a G20 summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Turkish President Recep Erdogan, IMF head Christine Lagarde and British Prime Minister David Cameron, Kremlin foreign polic…
What arrests? Some Venezuelans in the dark about drugs scandal
CARACAS (Reuters) – The arrest of two of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s relatives to face charges of cocaine smuggling was an international embarrassment for him and his socialist government.
Stellenbosch university adopts English over Afrikaans after protests
STELLENBOSCH, South Africa (Reuters) – South Africa’s University of Stellenbosch has adopted English as the main language on campus, it said on Friday, a historic move after students rebelled against using Afrikaans in education, a language they identi…
Suicide bomb in Baghdad kills at least 18: medics
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – At least 18 people were killed and 41 wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the funeral of a pro-government Shi’ite Muslim fighter in Baghdad on Friday, Iraqi police and medical sources said.
Two killed in clashes between Armenian-backed Karabakh troops and Azeri army
BAKU/YEREVAN (Reuters) – Two soldiers from the Armenian-backed breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region have been killed in clashes with the Azeri army, the separatists’ defense ministry said on Friday.
Kazakhstan suspends tourist flights to Egypt after Russian plane crash
ASTANA/ALMATY (Reuters) – Kazakhstan has suspended tourist flights to Egypt due to safety concerns after a Russian passenger plane crashed there killing all 224 people onboard, Kazakh tourist companies and an airline said on Friday.
Arrest warrant issued for Cambodian opposition leader
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – A Cambodian court on Friday issued an arrest warrant for opposition leader Sam Rainsy in connection with an old defamation case as tension rises between Sam Rainsy and Prime Minister Hun Sen after a political truce collapsed.
Austria to build border fence to manage migrant flow
VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria will build a roughly 4 km (2.5 mile) fence either side of its busiest border crossing with Slovenia to help manage the flow of thousands of migrants a day onto its territory, senior Austrian officials said on Friday.
Indonesia court sentences Hong Kong drug leader to death
JAKARTA (Reuters) – An Indonesian court sentenced a drug leader from Hong Kong to death on Friday for possession of more than 860 kg (1,900 lb) of methamphetamines in one of the country’s biggest drug busts in years.
German police find seven dead babies in apartment
BERLIN (Reuters) – The bodies of seven dead babies have been found in an apartment in the southern German state of Bavaria, police said, adding that they wanted to question a 45-year-old woman who was the previous tenant of the property.
