Venezuela recalls ambassador to Guyana amid territory dispute
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday said he was calling in the country’s ambassador in neighboring Guyana for consultations amid an escalating row over oil exploration in a disputed offshore territory.
Iran demands end to U.N. missile sanctions, West refuses
VIENNA (Reuters) – A dispute over U.N. sanctions on Iran’s ballistic missile program and a broader arms embargo were among issues holding up a nuclear deal between Tehran and six world powers on Monday, the day before their latest self-imposed deadline…
Germany, France press Greece to make fast, credible proposals
PARIS/ATHENS (Reuters) – France and Germany told Greece on Monday to come up with serious proposals in order to restart financial aid talks, a day after Greeks voted overwhelmingly to reject more austerity.
Air strikes kill nearly 100 in Yemen, cast shadow on truce talks
DUBAI/ADEN (Reuters) – Nearly 100 people were killed on Monday in air strikes across Yemen, the Houthi-run state news agency reported, as a Saudi-led coalition stepped up attacks that are likely to weigh on efforts to broker a humanitarian truce.
Balkan route a road of beatings for migrants, refugees: Amnesty
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Police in some Balkan nations are abusing thousands of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, many of them children, as they travel across the region to reach the European Union (EU), Amnesty International said i…
Teenager blows herself up near mosque in Nigeria’s second city
KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) – A teenager blew herself up near a mosque on Monday night in an apparent suicide attack attempt in Kano, Nigeria’s second-largest city, police said.
Britain remembers 7/7 victims 10 years after London bombings
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will fall silent on Tuesday to commemorate the 10th anniversary of attacks targeting London public transport which killed 56 people, the first suicide bombings by Islamist militants in western Europe.
Obama says U.S. to increase support for Syria opposition
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama pledged to increase U.S. support for the moderate opposition in Syria’s civil war on Monday and said the United States needed to do more at home to prevent attacks and combat Islamic State efforts to recrui…
Syria’s al-Qaeda offshoot Nusra stages suicide bombing in Aleppo: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A suicide bomber from Syria’s al Qaeda offshoot the Nusra Front blew himself up in a Syrian army outpost in a contested neighborhood in the divided northern city of Aleppo and killed at least 25 soldiers and allied militia and injure…
There’s a heavy toll to pay for Zimbabwe’s decrepit roads
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The state of Zimbabwe’s roads is the stuff of legend. From whole trucks submerged in water-filled craters right in the central business district to gruesome road accidents, motorists must navigate hazards like these every day.
