Islamic State beheads four men for blasphemy in Syria: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamic State’s self-declared police force in western Syria decapitated four men after accusing them of blasphemy, a rights group monitoring the Syrian conflict said on Saturday.
Haiti’s president sacrifices prime minister in bid to reunite country
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haitian president Michel Martelly agreed to seek the resignation of his prime minister on Friday, after accepting the recommendations of a special commission appointed to resolve a long-running political dispute that has bloc…
Nicaragua rescues eight more survivors after shipwreck
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s navy said on Friday it had rescued another eight fisherman and will continue searching for 18 others that remain missing after a boat carrying 50 shipwrecked off the Caribbean coast of the Central American nation ear…
Wanted: Scottish Labour leader to swing Britain’s 2015 election
LONDON (Reuters) – When the once mighty Scottish Labour party selects a new local boss on Saturday, national party chief Ed Miliband will be holding his breath: The decision could make or break his chances of winning power in wider Britain.
U.S. seeks to defuse tensions over Israeli-Palestinian resolutions
BOGOTA (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday the United States was seeking to defuse tensions over proposed U.N. resolutions to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during talks in Europe next week.
In Mass for Latin America, Pope calls for ‘new models of development’
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis, celebrating one of Latin America’s most important feast days, on Friday called on the continent of his birth to find “new models of development” to help the poor, the suffering and those he said “hunger for justic…
Explosion damages French cultural center in Gaza
GAZA (Reuters) – An explosion damaged a French cultural center in the Gaza Strip on Friday and wounded a Palestinian policeman, security sources said.
U.S. urges Colombia to make quick progress to peace
BOGOTA (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged Colombian negotiators on Friday to move quickly in peace talks aimed at ending 50 years of war so that the Andean country can move on and achieve “enormous potential”.
Italy’s Renzi proposes tougher corruption laws amid Rome scandal
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Friday proposed tougher laws against corruption amid an investigation in Rome into a mafia-like group that offered bribes to officials in exchange for lucrative public contracts.
Russia accuses U.S. of destroying ‘carcass of cooperation’ with Ukraine bill
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Friday sternly criticized a bill on Ukraine that passed the U.S. Senate, saying Washington was doing its utmost to “destroy the carcass of cooperation” between the two countries.
