Mexican president’s approval ratings hit after drug kingpin’s escape
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Approval ratings for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto have fallen to a new low, a newspaper poll showed on Friday amid a weak economy and after the escape of the country’s most notorious criminal from a maximum-security prison.
Venezuela supermarket looting leaves one dead, dozens detained
CARACAS (Reuters) – One person was killed and dozens were detained following looting of supermarkets in Venezuela’s southeastern city of Ciudad Guayana, the state governor said on Friday, amid the ongoing food shortages in the recession-hit OPEC nation…
Cameroon arrests three Boko Haram suspects carrying explosives: sources
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Cameroon officials have arrested three suspects carrying a bag containing improvised explosive devices in the northern town of Maroua where a spate of suspected Boko Haram suicide attacks killed at least 40 last week, sources said o…
Exclusive: Walkout at Taliban leadership meeting raises specter of split
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – At the Taliban meeting this week where Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour was named as the Islamist militant group’s new head, several senior figures in the movement, including the son and brother of late leader Mullah Omar, …
Israeli soldiers shoot dead Palestinian near Gaza border: medics
GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian teenager near the border fence in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, Palestinian medical officials said.
Al Qaeda in Syria says detains U.S.-trained rebels
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Al Qaeda’s Syria wing said on Friday it had detained members of a Syrian rebel group who had just returned from U.S. training, in a direct challenge to Washington’s plan to train and equip insurgents to combat the hard-line Islamic S…
Palestinian toddler killed in West Bank; Jewish arsonists suspected
DUMA, West Bank (Reuters) – Suspected Jewish attackers torched a Palestinian home in the occupied West Bank on Friday, killing an 18-month-old child and seriously injuring his parents and brother, an act that Israel’s prime minister described as terror…
Early poll prospects grow as Turkish air strikes muddy coalition talks
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey looks increasingly likely to face an early election as its air strikes against Kurdish militants in Iraq and Islamic State in Syria stir nationalist sentiment and coalition talks make little apparent progress.
Germany suspends treason probe against news website
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany has suspended a treason investigation into a news website while experts decide whether its articles on plans to increase state surveillance of online communications constituted a revelation of state secrets.
Reports of Haqqani network founder’s death, but family denies
WANA/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Family members on Friday denied reports of the death of Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of the fearsome Haqqani militant network blamed for some of Afghanistan’s deadliest suicide attacks.
