Hearing date set for Canada Valentine’s Day massacre plot suspects
HALIFAX (Reuters) – The hearing for a Canadian man and American woman accused of plotting a shopping mall massacre in the Atlantic Canadian city of Halifax will begin in June, a judge ruled on Friday.
Nigerians to vote for powerful governors in state elections
LAGOS, (Reuters) – The final stage of Nigeria’s election will begin on Saturday with state governorship polls, two weeks after a presidential vote saw an incumbent leader unseated at the ballot box for the first time.
Pakistan declines Saudi call for armed support in Yemen fight
ADEN (Reuters) – Pakistan’s parliament voted on Friday not to join the Saudi-led military intervention in Yemen, dashing Riyadh’s hopes for powerful support from outside of the region in its fight to halt Iranian-allied Houthi rebels.
Islamists arrested in Spain eyed attacks on synagogues, authorities: court
MADRID (Reuters) – Members of a suspected militant Islamist cell arrested this week in Spain were trying to obtain explosives to bomb a Jewish bookshop in Barcelona, an investigating magistrate said on Friday.
Arson in German town shows anti-immigrant mood running high
TROEGLITZ, Germany (Reuters) – The sleepy town of Troeglitz in eastern Germnay had planned to welcome foreign refugees and asylum-seekers to a newly-renovated shelter.
Arson in German town shows anti-immigrant mood running high
TROEGLITZ, Germany (Reuters) – The sleepy town of Troeglitz in eastern Germnay had planned to welcome foreign refugees and asylum-seekers to a newly-renovated shelter.
Brazil police arrest 3 ex-congressmen, broaden corruption probe
CURITIBA, Brazil (Reuters) – Brazilian police arrested three former congressmen on Friday, broadening their corruption investigation beyond state-run oil firm Petrobras to state lender Caixa Economica Federal and the federal health ministry.
Slovenian SD party says to stay in government despite ousting of minister
LJUBLJANA (Reuters) – Slovenia’s center-left Social Democrats (SD), a junior coalition partner, said on Friday they would remain in the government despite parliament’s sacking of the SD defense minister on Thursday.
Ukraine military, rebels accuse each other of increased attacks
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s military and pro-Russian rebels accused each other on Friday of intensifying attacks in separatist eastern territories despite a two-month-old ceasefire deal.
Forty Haitian migrants feared dead in shipwreck off north coast
MIAMI (Reuters) – As many as 40 Haitian migrants were feared dead after their ship bound for the Turks and Caicos Islands capsized in the Caribbean off Haiti’s north coast, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Friday.
