France’s UMP party changes name to The Republicans, boosting Sarkozy
PARIS (Reuters) – French conservatives overwhelmingly backed renaming their UMP party “The Republicans” on Friday in a boost for former president Nicolas Sarkozy, who wants to use the re-branding as a springboard for the 2017 presidential election.
U.S. considers airport preclearance centers in nine countries
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Department of Homeland Security said on Friday it is considering expanding airline preclearance operations to 10 new foreign airports in nine countries, most of them in Europe.
Six people killed, eight wounded in rocket attack in Libya’s Benghazi: official
BENGHAZI, Libya/TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Six people were killed and eight wounded when a rocket hit a residential district in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Friday, officials said.
Islamic State suicide bomber in women’s garb kills three in Saudi Arabia
ABU DHABI/DUBAI (Reuters) – An Islamist militant suicide bomber disguised as a woman blew himself up outside a Shi’ite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia on Friday, killing himself and three other people, the second attack of its kind in the world’s top oi…
Video shows Canada Parliament gunman praying before attack
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Previously unreleased footage of a gunman who fatally shot a soldier in Canada’s capital last October before storming Parliament shows him praying aloud in Arabic.
At U.N., states urged to do more to stop flow of foreign fighters
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Interior ministers from members of the United Nations Security Council on Friday voiced concern that some countries were not doing enough to prevent their citizens from traveling abroad and joining militant groups like Islami…
Italian lawmakers target Renzi election candidate over corruption
ROME (Reuters) – The Italian parliament’s anti-mafia committee released the names of 17 local election candidates suspected of graft or organized crime links on Friday — an embarrassment for Prime Minister Matteo Renzi before local elections on Sunday…
Gunmen kill 19 bus passengers in Pakistan attack
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Gunmen killed at least 19 passengers they had forced off buses traveling from the western Pakistani city of Quetta to Karachi on the southern coast, said the home minister for the restive province of Baluchistan, where the …
Fighters battle Houthis in Yemen’s southern city of Aden
ADEN (Reuters) – Heavy fighting erupted in southern Yemen near Aden airport on Friday when local militia attacked Shi’ite Houthi rebels in a push to drive them from the district, residents and fighters said.
Exclusive: U.S. tried Stuxnet-style campaign against North Korea but failed – sources
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The United States tried to deploy a version of the Stuxnet computer virus to attack North Korea’s nuclear weapons program five years ago but ultimately failed, according to people familiar with the covert campaign.
