Looting and violence on the rise in Venezuela supermarkets
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan supermarkets are increasingly being targeted by looters as swollen lines and prolonged food shortages spark frustration in the OPEC nation struggling with an economic crisis.
Egypt’s Sisi opens New Suez Canal, says to defeat terrorists
ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) – Egypt received a show of international support on Thursday as it inaugurated a major extension of the Suez Canal which President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi hopes will power an economic turnaround in the Arab world’s most populous …
Drone attack kills at least four suspected militants in Pakistan
BANNU, Pakistan (Reuters) – A U.S. drone strike killed at least four suspected militants in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, three Pakistani intelligence officers said, in what appeared to be an attack on the Haqqani Network.
Violence in Burundi imperils the region: U.N. representative
KIGALI (Reuters) – Growing violence in Burundi is a danger to the entire region and the international community must act to keep the crisis from escalating, the U.N.’s Special Representative for Central Africa said on Thursday.
Argentine ex-president a no-show at trial over bombing cover-up
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Former Argentine President Carlos Menem failed to appear Thursday at the opening of his trial for allegedly conspiring to derail an investigation into the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires.
Kerry says U.S. will not accept restrictions in South China Sea
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday accused China of restricting navigation and overflights in the disputed South China Sea, despite giving assurances that such movements would not be impeded.
Suicide bomber kills 15 in Saudi security site mosque
CAIRO (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed at least 15 people in an attack on a mosque used by members of a local security force in southwest Saudi Arabia on Thursday, the interior ministry said, an assault that an online statement said was carried out …
U.S. reports 27 air strikes against Islamic State in Syria, Iraq
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and it allies conducted 27 air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq on Wednesday, the U.S. military said.
Sierra Leone court acquits 13 soldiers accused of mutiny
FREETOWN (Reuters) – A military court in Sierra Leone has acquitted 13 soldiers accused of plotting to seize and kill President Ernest Bai Koroma in 2013.
More than 200 feared dead in sinking of migrant boat
PALERMO, Sicily (Reuters) – Hopes faded of finding more survivors on Thursday from a shipwreck in which 200 migrants are feared drowned, as rescue ships were called to the aid of more migrant boats in the same area of the Mediterranean.
