China, Myanmar sign $7.8 billion of deals: China Daily
BEIJING (Reuters) – China and Myanmar signed deals worth $7.8 billion for energy, agriculture, telecommunications, infrastructure and finance during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to the Southeast Asian country, state media reported on Saturday.
Magnitude 5.6 quake strikes Pacific near Peruvian coast
LIMA (Reuters) – A 5.6 magnitude earthquake struck the Pacific near the Peruvian coast late on Friday, rocking buildings for several seconds in the capital Lima and disrupting cellphone services briefly.
Ukraine and Russia take center stage as leaders gather for G20
BRISBANE Australia (Reuters) – A showdown between Western leaders and Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely at the G20 summit in Australia starting on Saturday, following fresh reports of Russian troops pouring into eastern Ukraine.
Egypt militant group posts video of attack on army checkpoint
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s most dangerous militant group on Friday posted its first video message since pledging allegiance to Islamic State, with footage purporting to show that the group was behind one of the most deadly attacks on Egyptian security f…
Ukraine and Russia take center stage as leaders gather for G20
BRISBANE Australia (Reuters) – A showdown between Western leaders and Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely at the G20 summit in Australia starting on Saturday, following fresh reports of Russian troops pouring into eastern Ukraine.
Nigeria insurgents retake village of abducted schoolgirls
YOLA/DAMATURU Nigeria (Reuters) – Boko Haram insurgents have retaken the village of Chibok in northeastern Nigeria where the group abducted some 200 schoolgirls seven months ago, a lawmaker and a villager who fled the attack said on Friday.
U.S.-led strikes hit Islamic State, al Qaeda-linked group in Syria: Central Command
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S.-led air strikes hit 10 units of Islamic State fighters in Syria in recent days, as well as militants with the al Qaeda-linked Khorasan Group, U.S. Central Command said in a statement on Friday.
Perpetrators of U.S. sailors’ assault will ‘pay the price,’ Turkish foreign minister says
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s foreign minister on Friday described an assault on U.S. sailors in Istanbul this week as reprehensible and vowed that the attackers would “pay the price for their actions.”
Suicide bomb kills 6 in Nigeria’s northern city of Kano: police
ABUJA (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed six people, including three policemen, in Nigeria’s northern city of Kano on Friday, a police spokesman told Reuters by telephone.
Body of Ugandan priest found in southern Mexico mass grave
IGUALA Mexico (Reuters) – The body of a Roman Catholic priest from Uganda who went missing in southwestern Mexico has been found in a mass grave as authorities search for the remains of 43 missing trainee teachers feared massacred, the local diocese sa…
