Chinese diplomatic staff killed in bizarre Philippine birthday shooting
MANILA (Reuters) – The husband of a woman working at a Chinese consulate in the Philippines shot dead the deputy consul general and a senior staff member at a birthday lunch on Wednesday and wounded the consul general, police said.
Egypt replaces central bank governor Hisham Ramez
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt has named senior banker Tarek Amer to head the central bank from November, in a move welcomed by traders who expect a new approach that could help ease the country’s currency crisis.
Syrian town joins Kurdish-led order, denies declaring new province
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A Syrian town captured from Islamic State by Kurdish-led forces in June joined the Kurdish-led political order in northern Syria on Wednesday, officials said, denying an earlier comment by an official who said it had declared itself …
Romania’s ex-president Iliescu faces prosecutors over killings at 1990 rally
BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania’s former President Ion Iliescu faced Supreme Court prosecutors at a criminal investigation on Wednesday into the storming of peaceful demonstrations in Bucharest in 1990 by tens of thousands of miners.
Vatican condemns report Pope Francis has brain tumor
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican denied an Italian newspaper report on Wednesday that Pope Francis has a benign brain tumor, saying the 78-year-old pontiff was in good health and denouncing the article as “inexcusable”.
Israel’s Netanyahu stirs trouble by linking late Muslim leader to Holocaust
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu provoked a Holocaust controversy on Wednesday, hours before a visit to Germany, by saying that the Muslim elder in Jerusalem during the 1940s convinced Adolf Hitler to exterminate the Jews…
EU interior ministers set migrant crisis meeting on November 9
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU interior ministers will hold an emergency meeting on the migration crisis on Nov. 9, the Luxembourg government, which holds the rotating chair of such councils, said on Wednesday.
South Africa charges miners over Marikana murders: lawyer
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African prosecutors have charged 17 miners with murder over the killing of 10 people during a violent wildcat strike at platinum producer Lonmin’s Marikana mine, their lawyer said on Wednesday.
Sectarian hate takes root as Yemen anti-Houthi forces push on Sanaa
MARIB, Yemen (Reuters) – Mohsen Saleh al-Muradi does not just want to drive the Shi’ite Houthi fighters out of Yemen’s capital 130 km (80 miles) from his home town, he wants to hunt them down and stamp them out.
Iraq’s cholera outbreak exceeds 1,800 cases: health ministry
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s first major cholera outbreak since 2012 has risen to more than 1,800 cases, including six deaths, and spread to the northern Kurdistan region, a health ministry spokesmen said on Wednesday.
