Ukrainian troops retake most of Donetsk airport from rebels
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian troops recaptured almost all the territory of Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine they had lost to separatists in recent weeks, as thousands gathered in Kiev for a state-sponsored peace march on Sunday.
Suicide car bombing at Nigeria bus station kills four, wounds 35
DAMATURU, Nigeria (Reuters) – A suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into a busy bus station in the northeast Nigerian town of Potiskum on Sunday, killing four people and wounding 35, police said.
Iran, powers make ‘limited’ progress at nuclear talks, to meet in February
GENEVA (Reuters) – Iran and major powers will meet again next month to try to narrow differences over Tehran’s nuclear programme after making limited progress on Sunday, as Washington lobbied to stave off fresh sanctions, diplomats said.
Poroshenko rejected peace proposal made by Putin, Putin’s spokesman says
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko rejected a peace plan proposed to him last week by his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday evening, according to Russian media.
Ghana’s navy frees hijacked tanker, arrests pirates
ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana’s navy has freed a tanker ship hijacked off the coast of Nigeria and arrested eight pirates believed to be responsible for seizing it, a military spokesman said on Sunday.
Belgium requests extradition of Greek suspect after attacks foiled
ATHENS (Reuters) – Belgian prosecutors said late on Sunday they had asked for a person arrested in Greece to be extradited over a possible link with a foiled Islamist plot to attack Belgian police.
Suspected Boko Haram fighters kidnap around 80 in Cameroon
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Suspected Boko Haram Islamist fighters from Nigeria kidnapped around 80 people, many of them children, and killed three others on Sunday in a cross-border attack on villages in northern Cameroon, army and government officials said.
UK’s Cameron defends free speech ‘right to cause offense’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron said there was “a right to cause offense about someone’s religion” in a free society, drawing a distinction between himself and Pope Francis in their response to the deadly Islamist attacks in…
One bomb explodes, police detonate two others in Istanbul
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A bomb exploded in central Istanbul on Sunday, and police detonated two others in controlled explosions, less than two weeks after a suicide bombing killed a police officer.
Zimbabwe bus collision kills at least 25 people
HARARE (Reuters) – At least 25 people were killed on Sunday when two buses collided along a highway outside Zimbabwe’s capital, police said.
