Burkina Faso prosecutor freezes assets of leader of failed coup
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Burkina Faso on Saturday froze the assets of General Gilbert Diendere, who led a failed coup last week in which his men took the president and prime minister hostage just weeks before elections were due.
Kerry says sees opportunity for progress on Syria as he meets Zarif
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he saw an opportunity for progress this week towards ending Syria’s four-year civil war as he met Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Saturday.
U.N. says world waited too long to act on refugee crisis
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations high commissioner for refugees said on Saturday the world waited far too long to respond to the refugee crisis sparked by the wars in Syria and elsewhere, though rich countries now appear to understand the …
Support for Merkel falls over handling of refugee crisis
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s popularity has dropped sharply over her handling of the refugee crisis, two polls showed on Saturday, indicating a shift in the mood in Europe’s most populous country towards the record influx of new…
Catalan separatists eye election boost to defy Spain over independence
BARCELONA (Reuters) – Separatist parties are expected to win control of Catalonia’s parliament in an election on Sunday, setting the region on course for a unilateral declaration of independence from Spain, which the central government says is impossib…
Who funds the trillion dollar plan of the U.N.’s new global goals?
UNITED NATIONS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As world leaders brandish a hard-fought new set of global goals designed to improve lives in all countries, the question of who foots the trillion-dollar bill remained open on Saturday as financial pledges …
France says Syria’s Assad has no role in country’s future
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad cannot play any role in a future political transition because it would not be credible to the Syrian people after so many deaths at the hands of his government, France’s foreign minister said on Sat…
Cuba’s Castro slams U.S. trade embargo at United Nations
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Cuba’s President Raul Castro, speaking at the United Nations for the first time, on Saturday hailed renewed diplomatic ties with the United States as “major progress” but slammed a U.S. trade embargo as the top obstacle to Cu…
Germany’s Merkel says U.N. Security Council must be reformed
NEW YORK (Reuters) – It is high time the United Nations Security Council is reformed to reflect the real distribution of power across the world in the 21st century, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday.
At least 21 killed in attacks in Central African Republic capital
BANGUI (Reuters) – At least 21 people were killed in the capital of Central African Republic on Saturday and around 100 others were wounded as Muslims attacked a mainly Christian neighborhood, senior hospital officials and witnesses said.
