Australia seeks Indonesia prisoner swap as executions loom
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s foreign minister said on Thursday she had proposed a prisoner swap with her Indonesian counterpart in an 11th hour effort to save the lives of two Australian drug smugglers expected to face a firing squad within days.
Libya asks U.N. for arms, jets, tanks to battle Islamic State: letter
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Libya has sought permission from the United Nations to import 150 tanks, two dozen fighter jets, seven attack helicopters, tens of thousands of assault rifles and grenade launchers and millions of rounds of ammunition from Uk…
U.S. Vice President Biden, Iraq’s Abadi discuss Tikrit fight
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden spoke with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Wednesday about the fight against Islamic State militants including the Iraqi-led operations in Tikrit, the White House said.
Russian security service chief says several suspects in Nemtsov case: agencies
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The director of Russia’s Federal Security Service said on Wednesday that an investigation into the murder of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov had identified several suspects, Russian news agencies reported.
Alien abduction? Stolen by Russia? MH370 theories keep coming
SYDNEY (Reuters) – A year on from the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, an extraordinary amount of key data remains unknown – fuelling conspiracy theories and heated online debate about one of aviation’s biggest mysteries.
‘Sabotage’ in El Salvador vote delays results 14 days: official
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – Results for El Salvador’s bungled legislative and mayoral vote will not be available for another 14 days, the president of the country’s electoral authority said on Wednesday, blaming the delay on “sabotage.”
Mexican ruling party insiders fear embattled president a liability
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican ruling party lawmakers fear President Enrique Pena Nieto’s lurch into scandal, weak economic record and struggle to tame corruption could hurt them in upcoming elections, raising pressure on him to take bold steps or sha…
Thirty-three miners dead after pit blast in east Ukraine
DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Thirty-three miners were confirmed dead late on Wednesday after a coal mine blast in the rebel-held city of Donetsk near the battle front in eastern Ukraine, indicating no one trapped in the rubble survived.
Rebels attack Aleppo security building, monitor says dozens killed
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Insurgents attacked a Syrian government security building in the northern city of Aleppo on Wednesday, bombing it and then launching a ground assault, sources on both sides and a monitoring group said.
Ten migrants die in Mediterranean, 1,100 rescued
ROME (Reuters) – At least 10 North African migrants died when their rubber boat overturned in the southern Mediterranean while more than a thousand more were rescued from eight other vessels over Tuesday and Wednesday, Italian and Tunisian authorities …
