Head of U.N. nuclear agency to visit Iran
VIENNA (Reuters) – The director general of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, which is investigating whether Iran carried out work aimed at developing an atom bomb, will travel to Iran this weekend, the agency said on Saturday.
Portugal pre-election poll puts ruling alliance ahead, many undecided
LISBON (Reuters) – A new opinion poll has put Portugal’s ruling coalition well ahead of the opposition Socialists in the race for an Oct. 4 general election though falling short of a parliamentary majority and with one in three voters still undecided.
Turkish jets hit Kurdish militant camps in Iraq, at least 55 killed: sources
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – At least 55 militants were killed when Turkish warplanes hit Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) camps in northern Iraq overnight, security sources said on Saturday, as Ankara shows no sign of easing up strikes on insurgents ah…
Haiti border crisis grows as Dominican Republic expels ‘migrants’
ANSE-à-PITRE, Haiti (Reuters) – Every morning, Gustavo Adolfo wakes up in a migrant shelter in Haiti, treks across a field of burnt brush where men make charcoal, and crosses a river into the Dominican Republic, a country he left in fear three months ago.
Insurgents killed 56 government troops at captured air base: Syria monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A group tracking the Syrian war said on Saturday that Islamist insurgents shot dead 56 members of Syrian government forces in a mass execution at an air base captured from the army earlier this month in northwestern Syria.
‘Heads as well as hearts’: Croatia says it can take no more migrants
TOVARNIK, Croatia/ZAGREB (Reuters) – After suddenly finding itself in the path of Europe’s biggest tide of migrants for decades, Croatia said on Friday it could no longer offer them refuge and would wave them on, challenging the EU to find a policy to …
Malaysia PM critic detained for anti-democratic activities amid 1MDB scandal: report
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – A former senior member of Malaysia’s ruling party has been detained for six days in connection with activities detrimental to parliamentary democracy, state news agency Bernama reported late on Saturday, citing a police directo…
Pakistan bombs Taliban hideouts after deadly raid on military base
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani jets killed 16 suspected militants in bombing raids near the Afghan border on Saturday, and police arrested dozens of people, security officials said, the day after Taliban militants killed 29 people in an attac…
Poll shows little UK support for new opposition leader as future PM
LONDON (Reuters) – Almost three in four people do not believe that the new leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, looks like a prime minister-in-waiting, according to a poll published in The Independent newspaper on Saturday.
With eye to Rouhani Paris visit, French firms head to Iran
PARIS (Reuters) – A senior French economic and political delegation heads to Tehran on Sunday to lay the groundwork for the first business contracts between France and Iran since an accord to curb its nuclear program in July.
