Former Greek PM Papandreou sets up new party ahead of elections
ATHENS (Reuters) – Former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou announced the creation of a new political party on Friday, confirming a long-expected split from the center-left PASOK and complicating the potential outcome of this month’s general elect…
Britain’s Cameron puts economy center stage in re-election campaign
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron stepped up his drive to be re-elected in four months, opening billboard campaigning on Friday with assertions that his Conservative party has nurtured Britain’s economic recovery.
Seven killed in clashes between Yemen’s army and tribesmen: local officials
ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) – Clashes between the Yemeni army and tribesmen in Marib province left seven dead and more than 15 injured late on Thursday, tribal sources said.
Pakistani boat laden with explosives blows up off Indian coast, India says
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A Pakistani fishing boat laden with explosives bound for India blew up, killing all four people on board, after the Indian coast guard tried to stop and search it, the Indian government said on Friday.
Turkish leftist group claims responsibility for Istanbul police attack
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The Turkish far-left group DHKP-C has claimed responsibility for a grenade attack on police near the Turkish prime minister’s office in Istanbul.
Italian Ebola patient released from hospital in Rome
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s only Ebola patient is fully recovered and was released from hospital on Friday more than a month after being flown to Rome from Sierra Leone where he worked as a doctor treating others stricken by the disease.
Madrid’s Atocha evacuated after false bomb threat: police
MADRID (Reuters) – Madrid’s Atocha main train station, the scene of a 2004 bomb attack which killed nearly 200 people, was evacuated on Friday after a bomb warning that turned out to be false.
Italy rescues another abandoned migrant ship
ROME (Reuters) – A ship carrying hundreds of migrants has been abandoned by its crew in rough seas in the Mediterranean off Italy’s south coast in the second such incident in three days, the Italian coastguard said on Friday.
Cologne Cathedral to turn out the lights in protest at anti-Muslim march
BERLIN (Reuters) – One of Germany’s most famous landmarks, Cologne Cathedral, will be plunged into darkness on Monday evening in protest at a march by a growing grass-roots anti-Muslim movement through the western German city, cathedral authorities sai…
2014 deadliest year in Iraq for civilians since 2006-7 bloodshed: U.N.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Violence in Iraq in 2014 killed at least 12,282 civilians, making it the deadliest year since the sectarian bloodshed of 2006-07, the United Nations said in a statement.
