Homes flattened as typhoon roars through Philippines
MANILA (Reuters) – A powerful, slow-moving typhoon ripped through the central Philippines on Sunday, bringing howling winds that flattened houses and toppled trees and power lines in areas still scarred from a deadly super-storm just over a year ago.
Modi seeks to replace central planning with ‘Team India’
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a brainstorming session on Sunday on replacing Soviet-style central planning with a ‘Team India’ concept that would give federal states a greater role in developing Asia’s third-largest eco…
Pope calls for stability in Argentina ahead of election: media
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentines across the political spectrum should work to maintain stability ahead of October’s presidential election, Pope Francis said in an interview published on Sunday by La Nacion, one of the South American country’s top ne…
Anti-Semitic incidents on rise in France, says minister
PARIS (Reuters) – Anti-Semitic threats and incidents have more than doubled so far this year in France, said the interior minister at a rally on Sunday to protest a violent attack on a young Jewish couple.
UK embassy in Cairo closes to the public over security concerns
CAIRO (Reuters) – The British Embassy in Cairo closed to the public on Sunday due to security concerns, an embassy spokesperson said.
Islamic State executes Shi’ite militia fighters north of Baghdad
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Islamic State fighters executed 12 Shi’ite militiamen north of Baghdad after heavy fighting for control of a rural village, security sources said on Sunday.
Prison break frees 200 inmates in central Nigeria
ABUJA (Reuters) – Gunmen broke into a prison in the central Nigerian city of Minna, freeing around 200 inmates, a police spokesman and security sources said.
Gunmen open fire on refugee camp in Lebanon, two wounded
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese gunmen opened fire on and burned Syrian refugee tents in north Lebanon, wounding two refugees, security sources said on Sunday, two days after a Lebanese soldier was killed by Syrian militants to countrywide outrage.
Iran to hike military spending despite lower oil prices, sanctions
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will hike military spending by more than a third in the next fiscal year despite presenting a “cautious, tight” budget to parliament on Sunday in response to falling oil prices and punishing sanctions arising from the country’s disputed nuclear program.
Suspected rebels kill at least 12 in northeast Congo village
KINSHASA (Reuters) – Suspected rebels stabbed and hacked to death at least a dozen people in a village in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday, a local government official said, in the latest in a series of attacks on civilians.
