Italy says may have found ship that carried 900 drowned migrants
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s navy said on Thursday it believed it had found the wreck of a boat that sank last month killing up to 900 migrants off the coast of Libya, the Mediterranean’s most deadly migrant tragedy in living memory.
Iraqi journalist shot dead by unknown assailant
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The body of an Iraqi journalist critical of the government has been found at his home in Baghdad with a single bullet wound to the chest after he received threats, relatives, acquaintances and police said on Thursday.
Saudi Arabia says considering five-day Yemen truce
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia proposed a five-day humanitarian truce in Yemen on Thursday after weeks of air strikes and fighting, but said a ceasefire depended on the Houthi militia and its allies also agreeing to lay down arms, Foreign Minister Ade…
Obama looks forward to working with Israel’s Netanyahu, White House says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said on Thursday that President Barack Obama looks forward to working with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his new governing coalition.
Chile ministers await fate; few seen safe in mass cabinet shuffle
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chile’s cabinet ministers were waiting to hear their fate on Thursday, with few seen certain to keep their jobs, after President Michelle Bachelet made a shock announcement on Wednesday night that she had asked them all to resign.
Hundreds of bodies may be buried in Nepal avalanche, official says
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Body parts are strewn on the slopes of a mountain in Nepal, and up to 300 people, many of them foreigners, are believed buried there by an avalanche set off by last month’s earthquake, an official said on Thursday.
Flights to besieged Afghan city canceled as Taliban, army clash
KABUL (Reuters) – Commercial flights to Afghanistan’s besieged northern city of Kunduz have been suspended, an official said on Thursday, as hundreds of Taliban militants fought against government forces struggling to oust them from the city’s outskirt…
Two killed in rocket strike in Libya’s Benghazi: medics
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Two people were killed when a rocket hit a residential building in the Libyan city of Benghazi on Thursday, bringing the death toll from recent fighting to at least 53 people in the past five weeks, medics said.
More than 50 Thai police punished over human trafficking links
BANGKOK (Reuters) – More than 50 Thai police officers have been punished over suspected links to human trafficking networks, the country’s police chief said on Thursday, after the prime minister ordered a probe into the discovery of trafficking camps n…
Parade hiccup as Russia prepares to unveil ‘masterpiece’ tank
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A new high tech battle tank hailed by Russia as a “masterpiece” appeared to break down on Red Square on Thursday during a rehearsal for the military parade at which it will make its long-awaited debut.
