French customs seize record 2.25 tons of cocaine off Martinique
PARIS (Reuters) – French customs officers seized 2.25 tons of cocaine, their biggest ever haul, in a raid on a yacht off Martinique, the Finance Ministry said on Saturday.
Iraqi forces retake most of Baiji refinery from Islamic State
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi forces retook most of the country’s largest refinery from Islamic State on Saturday, officials said, reversing gains by the militants who seized parts of the sprawling complex in northern Iraq this week.
Car bomb kills three outside U.S. consulate in Iraq’s Kurdish capital
ERBIL (Reuters) – A car bombing claimed by the Islamic State killed three people on Friday outside the U.S. consulate in Erbil, in a relatively rare attack in the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan region.
South Korea police clash with protesters over ferry disaster
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean police clashed on Saturday with thousands of protesters, blocking their way to the presidential palace where they hoped to press for more government action in response to a ferry disaster that claimed more than 300 lives …
Afghan blast kills 33; president blames Islamic State
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A suicide bomber in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Jalalabad killed 33 people and injured more than 100 on Saturday, setting off a blast outside a bank where government workers collect salaries, the city’s police chief…
Zimbabwe’s Mugabe says bonuses for public workers to stay
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Saturday said public workers would continue receiving annual bonuses, publicly contradicting his finance minister who said this week the government would stop the payments for the next two years….
U.S., allies target Islamic State with 20 air strikes in Iraq, Syria: military
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and its allies have launched 20 air strikes targeting Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria since early on Friday, the Combined Joint Task Force leading the operations said on Saturday.
Two ships run aground in Suez Canal, delaying traffic
CAIRO (Reuters) – A container ship ran aground in Egypt’s Suez Canal in dense mist on Saturday morning, the canal authority said, delaying traffic through a vital global trade route for several hours.
Mugabe ‘shocked, disgusted’ by South African anti-immigrant violence
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Saturday expressed shock and disgust at attacks on immigrants in neighboring South Africa and said his government was working to bring back home affected Zimbabwean citizens.
Al Shabaab militants kill regional Somali lawmaker in capital
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Gunmen from Somali Islamist group al Shabaab killed a regional lawmaker on Saturday after he had taken his wife to hospital in the capital Mogadishu, the group and officials said.
