Taliban shoot dead Supreme Court official in Afghanistan capital
KABUL (Reuters) – Taliban insurgents gunned down a top official of Afghanistan’s Supreme Court as he left his home in Kabul on Saturday, the latest in a spate of strikes by the hardline Islamists on a broad range of targets in and around the Afghan cap…
Russia says will react if U.S. imposes new sanctions
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will take counter measures if Washington imposes new sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Saturday.
India police detain man said to be behind pro-Islamic State Twitter posts
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian police on Saturday arrested a company executive suspected of operating a pro-Islamic State Twitter account that pumped out a stream of updates on the violent group’s military campaign from his base in Bengaluru.
Islamic State beheads four men for blasphemy in Syria: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamic State’s self-declared police force in western Syria decapitated four men after accusing them of blasphemy, a rights group monitoring the Syrian conflict said on Saturday.
Haiti’s president sacrifices prime minister in bid to reunite country
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haitian president Michel Martelly agreed to seek the resignation of his prime minister on Friday, after accepting the recommendations of a special commission appointed to resolve a long-running political dispute that has bloc…
Nicaragua rescues eight more survivors after shipwreck
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s navy said on Friday it had rescued another eight fisherman and will continue searching for 18 others that remain missing after a boat carrying 50 shipwrecked off the Caribbean coast of the Central American nation ear…
Wanted: Scottish Labour leader to swing Britain’s 2015 election
LONDON (Reuters) – When the once mighty Scottish Labour party selects a new local boss on Saturday, national party chief Ed Miliband will be holding his breath: The decision could make or break his chances of winning power in wider Britain.
U.S. seeks to defuse tensions over Israeli-Palestinian resolutions
BOGOTA (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday the United States was seeking to defuse tensions over proposed U.N. resolutions to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during talks in Europe next week.
In Mass for Latin America, Pope calls for ‘new models of development’
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis, celebrating one of Latin America’s most important feast days, on Friday called on the continent of his birth to find “new models of development” to help the poor, the suffering and those he said “hunger for justic…
Explosion damages French cultural center in Gaza
GAZA (Reuters) – An explosion damaged a French cultural center in the Gaza Strip on Friday and wounded a Palestinian policeman, security sources said.
