Venezuela’s struggling socialists hold primaries for parliamentary vote
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s ruling socialists held primaries on Sunday ahead of December’s parliamentary election they are forecast to lose due to a biting recession and discontent with the late Hugo Chavez’s uncharismatic successor.
Flash floods, landslides kill 23 in southeastern Bangladesh
DHAKA (Reuters) – At least 23 people have died in flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains that lashed southeastern Bangladesh, officials said on Sunday.
Bus carrying British children crashes in Belgium, driver dead
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A British bus with 34 children on board overturned and crashed on a motorway in Belgium on Sunday morning, killing a driver, a local mayor said.
Rouhani aims to bring transparency to Iran’s legal system
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s judicial system must become more transparent and political crimes should be clearly defined, President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday, in some of his strongest comments on domestic reform since taking office.
European tour operators evacuate thousands from Tunisia after attack
SOUSSE, Tunisia (Reuters) – Tour companies were evacuating thousands of foreign holidaymakers from Tunisia on Saturday, a day after a gunman killed 39 people at a beach hotel in an attack claimed by Islamic State.
Albanian police arrest brothers suspected of killing officer
TIRANA (Reuters) – Albanian police have arrested two brothers suspected of leading the group of youths that shot dead an elite police officer in a raid on a village known until last year for producing cannabis worth hundred of millions of dollars.
Kurds secure Syria’s Kobani as Islamic State targets northeast
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian Kurdish fighters said they had fully secured the town of Kobani near the Turkish border on Saturday and killed more than 60 Islamic State militants, two days after the hardline group launched an incursion with suicide bombers….
Kuwait says mosque suicide bomber was Saudi: state media
DUBAI (Reuters) – Kuwait has identified the suicide bomber who carried out the country’s worst attack as a Saudi citizen, Kuwait state media reported on Sunday.
Senior Uighur official investigated for graft in China’s Xinjiang
BEIJING (Reuters) – A senior ethnic Uighur official in China’s unruly far western region of Xinjiang is being investigated for suspected serious “discipline violations”, the Communist Party’s anti-graft watchdog said on Sunday, using a euphemism for co…
Saudi soldier killed in cross-border shelling from Yemen
DUBAI (Reuters) – A Saudi soldier was killed and another wounded by shelling from forces loyal to former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh and Houthi rebels near the Yemen border, Saudi state news agency SPA said on Sunday.
