Election-year water crisis taking a toll on Brazil’s economy
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – After a grueling election campaign in which officials faced fierce criticism for downplaying the effects of a year-long drought, Brazil’s most populous state is finally coming to terms with an uncomfortable reality: it is running …
Iran hits back after West condemns its human rights record
GENEVA (Reuters) – Iran defended itself on Friday against Western accusations of repression and a sharp rise in executions, including that of a woman hanged for murdering a man she accused of trying to rape her.
Congo crowd kills man, eats him after militant massacres: witnesses
BENI Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – A crowd stoned to death a young man in northeast Congo on Friday before burning and eating his corpse, witnesses said, in apparent revenge for a series of attacks by Ugandan rebels.
Turkey’s Erdogan says Kurdish peace process will continue despite unrest
PARIS (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday a peace process with Kurdish militants would continue after the killing of four soldiers and riots this month over what Kurds saw as Turkey’s refusal to help their kin in Syria.
Libyan army says recaptures four barracks in Benghazi
BENGHAZI (Reuters) – Libya’s army special forces have seized back four barracks from armed Islamist groups in the eastern city of Benghazi, a commander said on Friday, after two weeks of heavy fighting which has killed at least 210 people.
Car bomb kills at least 10 at bus stop in northeast Nigeria
ABUJA (Reuters) – A car bomb killed at least 10 people at a crowded bus stop in the northeast Nigerian city of Gombe on Friday morning, emergency services said.
Gazprom to resume gas supply once Ukraine pays $2.2 billion
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia could resume natural gas deliveries to Ukraine as soon as next week if Kiev pays $2.2 billion in debt and pre-payments, gas exporter Gazprom said on Friday, under a deal that also safeguards winter deliveries to Europe.
Ukraine’s Poroshenko backs Yatseniuk for new term as prime minister
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko threw his support behind Arseny Yatseniuk for a new term as prime minister on Friday, ending speculation that he would seek to try to bring in his own candidate as head of a new pro-Europe, reformis…
Rains slow Sri Lankan landslide search; nearly 150 feared dead
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Heavy rains hampered search operations on Friday at the site of a landslide in Sri Lanka where more than 100 people were buried under tons of mud and rubble two days ago.
Spain says will seek to block watered-down Catalan vote on independence
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain will seek to block in the courts a watered-down version of a Catalan vote on independence planned for Nov. 9 in the same way it stopped a non-binding referendum, Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said on Friday.
