Venezuela’s Maduro to visit China, Vietnam for finance deals
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday said he will visit China and Vietnam to sign economic and financing deals, as the OPEC nation struggles to make ends meet at a time of low oil prices.
Greece’s Syriza to win election but face setback, polls show
ATHENS (Reuters) – Former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ leftist Syriza will emerge as the biggest party in next month’s election but without the majority it was hoping for, the first opinion polls since he resigned last week showed on Friday.
Libyan drownings, truck of corpses drive up migrant toll
EISENSTADT, Austria/TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Austria said on Friday 71 refugees, including a baby girl, were found dead in an abandoned freezer truck, while Libya recovered the bodies of 105 migrants washed ashore after their overcrowded boat sank on its wa…
Syrians fear for relatives after Austrian migrant tragedy
VIENNA (Reuters) – Distraught over missing relatives en route from Syria to western Europe, two young men waited anxiously on Friday for news outside Vienna’s forensic department, where some of the bodies of 71 dead migrants found in Austria have been brought.
Greece’s Syriza to win election but face setback, polls show
ATHENS (Reuters) – Former Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ leftist Syriza will emerge as the biggest party in next month’s election but without the majority it was hoping for, the first opinion polls since he resigned last week showed on Friday.
Iraqi PM orders easier access to Baghdad’s Green Zone as protests surge
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Friday ordered security forces to ease access to Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone and main streets, in an apparent bid to improve daily life for ordinary Iraqis as fresh protests erupted across …
New Turkish cabinet includes opposition, but little policy change seen
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu appointed nationalist and pro-Kurdish opposition politicians to an interim power-sharing cabinet on Friday, but left his finance and economy ministers unchanged in a team dominated by ruling par…
Magnitude 5.5 quake shakes buildings in Peruvian capital
LIMA (Reuters) – An earthquake that shook buildings in the Peruvian capital of Lima on Friday had a magnitude of 5.5 and a depth of 94 kilometers (58 miles), according to a preliminary report by Peru’s Geophysical Institute.
Central African Republic armed group frees enslaved children
BANGUI (Reuters) – A militia in the Central African Republic released 163 enslaved children on Friday, partly fulfilling a pledge made as part of a U.N.-brokered deal, a U.N. agency said.
French Socialists see reason to hope with Greens in turmoil
LA ROCHELLE, France (Reuters) – French Socialists welcomed a decision by two senior Green lawmakers to split away and create a new movement to support them, saying on Friday it would strengthen the Left’s hand in regional and presidential elections.
