Afghan aid workers found dead; 100 students hospitalized after meal
KABUL (Reuters) – Authorities in western Afghanistan are investigating whether 100 schoolboys who were hospitalized on Saturday were poisoned, police said, a day after five aid workers kidnapped by the Taliban were found dead.
Supporters of Maldives ex-president hold underwater protest
MALE (Reuters) – Supporters of jailed former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed held an underwater protest on Saturday to push for the release of the tropical archipelago’s first democratically elected leader, after he was sentenced to 13 years in pris…
U.S., allies conduct air strikes in Syria and Iraq: U.S. military
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S.-led forces have targeted Islamic State militants with eight air strikes in Syria and nine in Iraq since early on Friday, the U.S. military said on Saturday.
Truck bomb wounds seven on Thai holiday island Koh Samui
BANGKOK (Reuters) – A truck bomb in an underground carpark wounded seven people on the Thai holiday island of Koh Samui on Friday night, in an incident which was likely to raise fears that Muslim rebels in the deep south could extend their campaign to …
Gunmen kill 20 sleeping laborers in Pakistan’s Baluchistan
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Gunmen attacked a Pakistani construction site and killed 20 laborers as they slept on Saturday, a government official said, in what appeared to be further violence by rebels seeking to control resources in gas- and mineral-…
ECB sees risks in Greece’s planned home foreclosure law
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s draft law to protect primary residences from foreclosures goes beyond protecting low-income debtors and could encourage strategic defaults, the European Central Bank said in a legal opinion on Saturday in a potential setback…
China says U.S. backs its campaign to hunt down ‘economic fugitives’
BEIJING (Reuters) – The United States has promised support for China’s campaign to hunt corrupt officials fleeing abroad, the official Xinhua news agency reported late Friday, after meetings between security officials from the world’s two largest econo…
Rebels bombard Syria’s government-held Aleppo
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Insurgents bombarded a government-held part of Syria’s second city Aleppo overnight, killing at least five people, a group monitoring the war said.
Islamic State attacks Iraqi provincial capital
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Islamic State militants attacked the capital of Iraq’s vast Anbar province on multiple fronts on Friday, seizing two areas on the city outskirts in a setback for a government campaign to retake the desert terrain.
Saudi authorities catch police shooting suspect
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s security services have detained a Saudi Arabian man on suspicion of shooting dead two policemen and wounding two others in separate attacks in Riyadh on Wednesday and in March, state media reported on Saturday, citing …
