Five die in small plane crash in northern Mexico: media reports
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Five people were killed when their small plane crashed in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua on Saturday, according to l media reports.
Up to 51 dead after bus crash in southern Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – As many as 51 people died on Saturday when a passenger bus drove off a cliff in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, police said.
Kurds battle Islamic State in Syria, U.S.-led coalition jets strike
BEIRUT (Reuters) – U.S.-led coalition jets struck Islamic State positions in northeast Syria for the second day in a row, in an area where the militants are battling Kurdish forces, a Kurdish official and a group monitoring the war said on Saturday.
Kerry says it is possible to reach an interim deal with Iran
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday he hoped “in the next days” it would be possible to reach an interim deal with Iran if Tehran can show that its nuclear power program is for peaceful purposes only.
U.S. ambassador attack renews focus on contentious South Korean security law
SEOUL (Reuters) – Efforts by South Korean police to charge a nationalist over a knife attack on the U.S. ambassador have renewed debate about the use of a state security act as a political weapon and an attempt to gloss over security shortcomings.
Iraqi Kurds say Islamic State used chlorine gas against them
ARBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi Kurdish authorities said on Saturday they had evidence that Islamic State had used chlorine gas as a chemical weapon against their peshmerga fighters in northern Iraq in January.
Biden, Poroshenko call on Russia, separatists to implement ceasefire deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko spoke by phone on Saturday and both called on Russia and pro-Russian separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine to implement the Minsk ceasefire agreements, the …
Vatican official says force may be needed to combat Islamic State: interview
ROME (Reuters) – The Vatican’s ambassador in Geneva has said the use of force will be necessary to protect minority groups from Islamic State aggression if a political solution cannot be achieved.
U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia on heightened security
(Reuters) – U.S. citizens are urged to take precautions in Saudia Arabaia and U.S. consular services in the country have been canceled for Sunday and Monday due to heightened security concerns, the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh said on Saturday.
Venezuela stages military exercise to counter U.S. ‘threat’
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela on Saturday staged a military exercise to counter an alleged U.S. threat, deploying soldiers and partisans across the country to march, man shoulder-fired missiles and defend an oil refinery from a simulated attack.
