Typhoon lashes China’s east coast, 14 dead and four missing: Xinhua
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A typhoon battered China’s east coast on Sunday, killing 14 people and forcing the authorities to evacuate hundreds of thousands more.
Ten killed in Indian temple stampede
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A surging crowd near a Hindu temple killed at least ten people and injured 25 others in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand on Monday, police said.
Extrajudicial killings rise in Pakistan police crackdown in Karachi
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Some senior current and former Karachi police officials say extrajudicial killings by the force are happening as part of a crackdown on crime in the city, in a stark admission of the practice by Pakistani authorities.
Haiti’s first election in four years marred by sporadic violence
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) – Haitians voted Sunday for the first time in four years in a test of stability for an impoverished country continually rocked by political turmoil.
Hammond: African migrant surge imperils EU social infrastructure
LONDON (Reuters) – A surge in migrants from Africa threatens the European Union’s living standards and social infrastructure, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Sunday, saying the bloc was unable to take in millions of people seeking a ne…
Israeli soldiers shoot dead Palestinian who stabbed Israeli in West Bank
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian who stabbed an Israeli man at a petrol station in the occupied West Bank on Sunday along a main highway near Jerusalem, police said.
Haiti’s first election in four years marred by sporadic violence
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) – Haitians voted Sunday for the first time in four years in a test of stability for an impoverished country continually rocked by political turmoil.
Official candidate ahead in Argentine presidential primary: polls
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Ruling party candidate Daniel Scioli was ahead in Argentina’s presidential primary on Sunday, according to TV exit polls that showed voters tending toward the Buenos Aires governor’s policy of gradual change after eight years o…
China’s much-hyped healthcare reform drive stuck in first gear
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Li Tiantian, a Chinese doctor turned tech entrepreneur, is a leading light of the country’s much-trumpeted healthcare reform drive. His medical networking platform DXY.com links two million doctors across China and has attracted fu…
Car bomb kills three in eastern Libya as Islamic State presses offensive
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – A car bomb exploded in Derna in eastern Libya on Sunday, killing at least three people and wounding 13 others, medics and residents said, as Islamic State militants pressed an offensive to retake the port city.
