Gunmen kill three Sunni clerics near Iraq’s Basra
BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered an urgent investigation on Friday into the fatal shooting of three Sunni clerics and the wounding of two others near the southern city of Basra.
Herders with machine guns intensify South Sudan land, food woes
ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tensions are rising in South Sudan as displaced pastoralists migrate onto lands occupied by farming communities, stoking a new series of conflicts in the war-torn nation and threatening food supplies, a United Nation…
At least seven killed in al Shabaab attack at Somali military base
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalian al Shabaab militants attacked a military base in the outskirts of the town of Baidoa on Friday morning, killing at least seven soldiers, a Somali military official said.
Venezuelan president’s popularity hits new low: pollster
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s approval rating has slipped to 22 percent, the lowest of his nearly two-year rule as a result of economic problems, a local pollster said on Friday.
Desperate parents of abducted Nigerian girls say have turned to U.N.
ABUJA (Reuters) – Parents of 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist rebels in April said they were appealing directly to the United Nations for help after losing hope that the Nigerian government would rescue them.
Vatican prosecutor seeks trial of protester who scaled St. Peter’s
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican may try a man who scaled St. Peter’s Basilica to protest against laws that he says lost him his business in Italy, a spokesman for the papal city state said on Friday.
Failure to stop Petrobras scandal could haunt Brazil’s Rousseff
RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA (Reuters) – When federal investigators first identified signs of corruption at Petrobras in 2009, Dilma Rousseff insisted Brazil’s state-run oil company had nothing to hide.
Islamic State targeted in 23 air strikes by U.S., allies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and allies staged 23 air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq on Thursday, the Combined Joint Task Force said on Friday.
Saudi king needed help breathing due to lung infection, condition stable
CAIRO (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz temporarily needed help to breath through a tube on Friday due to a lung infection but the procedure was successful and his condition was now stable, state media said.
Israeli settlers stone U.S. diplomatic cars: police
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Jewish settlers threw stones at the cars of a U.S. diplomatic delegation which came to inspect vandalism to nearby Palestinian-owned trees in the occupied West Bank on Friday, Israeli police said.
