Landmark Tunisian presidential election seen heading for run-off
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisians voted on Sunday to pick their first directly elected president, with the two major parties expecting a run-off as the final step in the North African state’s transition to full democracy following a 2011 revolution that oust…
Portugal ex-PM Socrates still in custody, more questioning Monday
LISBON (Reuters) – Police transferred Portugal’s former Socialist prime minister Jose Socrates back to his cell at a police station late on Sunday where he will spend a third night in a row after his shocking arrest and questioning in a corruption inve…
Multi-national crew blasts off for space station
A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazahkstan on Sunday to deliver three new crew members to the International Space Station, including Italy’s first female astronaut.
France’s Hollande made left-wing voters feel betrayed: ex-partner
LONDON (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande suffers record low popularity because he has failed to deliver promised reforms and left left-wing voters feeling betrayed, his ex-partner Valerie Trierweiler said on Sunday.
Kenya says kills militants after bus ambush that killed 28
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan security forces have pursued and killed more than 100 militants and destroyed their camp in Somalia after the ambush of a Nairobi-bound bus that killed 28 people, Deputy President William Ruto said on Sunday.
Suicide bomber kills 45 at volleyball match in Afghanistan
GARDEZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest in a crowd of spectators at a volleyball match in Afghanistan on Sunday, killing 45 people, a provincial official said, as foreign troops withdraw from the country after more…
No easy ‘plan B’ for Iran if nuclear talks with major powers collapse
VIENNA (Reuters) – Iranian officials say they can turn to Beijing and Moscow if talks in Vienna fail to end Western sanctions, but with oil prices falling, China’s economy slowing and Russia in its own sanctions-induced slump, Tehran’s “plan B” hardly …
Iranian-British woman jailed over sport protest released on bail
LONDON (Reuters) – Ghoncheh Ghavami, an Iranian-British woman jailed in Tehran earlier this month for taking part in a protest against a ban on women attending some men’s sporting events, has been released on bail, Britain’s Foreign’s Office said on Su…
Police in Tobago investigate murder of German couple on beach
PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) – Police are investigating the murder of an elderly German couple found hacked to death on a beach near their home in the southern Caribbean island of Tobago on Saturday.
U.S. troops to remain in Baltics, Poland next year
VILNIUS (Reuters) – The United States will keep troops in Poland and the Baltic states for at least the next year as tensions with Russia remain, the commander of U.S. land forces in Europe said on Sunday.
