At least 15 kidnapped by unknown gunmen in eastern Cameroon
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – At least 15 people, including a mayor and local government officials, were kidnapped by unknown gunmen in eastern Cameroon near the restive border region with Central African Republic, authorities said on Friday.
U.S. House Speaker Boehner to visit Israel
JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – John Boehner, Republican speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives at the center of a political furor in Washington over relations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will visit Israel in coming weeks, hi…
Italy wants North African countries to rescue migrants at sea
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Italy wants Egypt and Tunisia to play a role in rescuing stricken migrant vessels in the Mediterranean, a government planning paper showed, so that survivors could be taken back to African instead of European ports.
Tunisian took break from travel agent job to shoot tourists
OMRANE SUPERIEUR, TUNISIA (Reuters) – Shortly before he and a friend gunned down 20 foreign tourists at Tunisia’s Bardo museum, Yassine al-Abidi sat down to a breakfast of olive oil and dates with his family and left for work at his travel agency as us…
Car bombs kill 20 at Syrian Kurdish new year celebration
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Two car bombs killed at least 20 people celebrating Nowruz, the Iranian new year, in the mainly Kurdish city of Hassaka in northeastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Friday.
Ukrainian oligarch under fire after night raid on state oil firm
KIEV (Reuters) – A raid by a group of armed men in combat fatigues on a state-owned oil company in the Ukrainian capital Kiev caused uproar in parliament on Friday and thrust banking billionaire Ihor Kolomoisky into the spotlight.
U.S. moving additional artillery battalion to South Korea: Pentagon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Army is sending a field artillery battalion of about 400 soldiers and multiple-launch rocket systems to South Korea, a move the Pentagon said on Friday was part of a reorganization of the service and unrelated to any ten…
Ethiopian pilot who hijacked plane sentenced to 20 years in jail
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – An Ethiopian court sentenced an Ethiopian Airlines pilot to 19 years and six months in prison on Friday for hijacking his own plane and flying it to Geneva, more than a year after he surrendered to Swiss police and sought asylum…
South African students demand Rhodes statue removal
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Hundreds of University of Cape Town students staged a protest march on Friday demanding the removal from the campus of a statue of Cecil John Rhodes, the British imperialist regarded as one of the main proponents of white colonial…
EU leaders pledge security cooperation, aid for Tunisia
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders pledged to step up help for Tunisia on Friday, worried that an attack that killed 20 foreign tourists shows Islamic State militants spreading their influence from Libya and posing a growing threat to Europe.
