Kerry, Zarif to discuss Iran nuclear deal as deadline approaches: U.S. official
VIENNA (Reuters) – The U.S. and Iranian foreign ministers will meet on Saturday, a senior U.S. official said, as major differences persist over an agreement under which Iran would curb its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief.
U.N. council told sound of helicopters has Syrians ‘watching for death’
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The sound of whirring helicopter blades fills Syrians with fear that “hell and fire” is about fall in a barrel bomb, a rescue worker told the United Nations Security Council on Friday as pressure mounts for the body to take a…
Islamic State suicide bomber kills 27, wounds 227 in Kuwait mosque
KUWAIT (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed 27 people when he blew himself up inside a packed Shi’ite Muslim mosque in Kuwait city during Friday prayers, the health ministry and witnesses said, the first attack of its kind in the major oil-exporting sta…
Mexicans bash Trump pinata, call him imbecile
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Few presidents of Mexico have managed to unite the country in the way Donald Trump did after he launched his U.S. presidential bid last week with a string of broadsides against America’s southern neighbor.
U.S. compares China’s South China Sea moves to Russia’s in Ukraine
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department’s number two diplomat on Friday compared China’s behavior in pursuit of territory in the South China Sea to that of Russia in eastern Ukraine.
Cop killings in Venezuela reach 120 so far in 2015
CARACAS (Reuters) – One hundred and twenty policemen have been murdered so far this year in Venezuela, one of the world’s most violent countries, a local watchdog said on Friday.
Coordinated or not, attacks show Islamic State’s growing reach
LONDON (Reuters) – The attacks came one after the other in the space of a few hours.
Delivery man beheads boss in suspected Islamist attack on French gas site
SAINT-QUENTIN FALLAVIER, France (Reuters) – A delivery man with known Islamist connections beheaded his boss and left the body, daubed with Arabic writing, at the site of a U.S.-owned gas factory in southeast France before trying to blow up the complex…
U.S. proposes six rival South Sudan leaders for first U.N. sanctions
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States has proposed six rival commanders from South Sudan be the first people blacklisted by the United Nations Security Council for threatening the peace and stability of the world’s newest state.
Saudi-led jets bomb Yemen as Hadi government rejects new talks
SANAA (Reuters) – Air strikes by Saudi-led forces hit military bases across Yemen on Friday, residents told Reuters, and the country’s foreign minister was quoted as saying there was no need to convene another peace summit after the first round of talk…
