Magnitude 6.9 earthquake hits near Tonga in South Pacific: USGS
(Reuters) – A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck in the South Pacific on Saturday, 186 miles (300 km) west-northwest of Tonga, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Gunmen ambush police in northwest Kenya, at least 10 dead
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Unidentified gunmen ambushed and killed at least eight Kenyan police officers in Turkana county in the northwest of Kenya early on Saturday, with another 12 officers were feared dead, police said.
Mexico questions police over killing of three U.S. siblings
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico has questioned local police over the disappearance and killing of three U.S. siblings in the troubled northeastern state of Tamaulipas, the state attorney general said on Saturday.
Funeral held for soldier killed in Quebec car attack
LONGUEUIL Quebec (Reuters) – Mourners including Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper paid respects in Quebec on Saturday at the second of two funerals for soldiers killed in attacks police said were carried out independently by radical recent convert…
French police clash with demonstrators over protester death
NANTES/TOULOUSE France (Reuters) – French riot-control officers clashed with hooded demonstrators in Nantes and Toulouse on Saturday, a week after the death of a young activist apparently killed by a police grenade.
Argentine judge asks Spain to extradite Franco-era officials
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – An Argentine judge has requested that Spain arrest and extradite 20 former Spanish officials, including two ex-government ministers, suspected of human rights violations in the era of dictator Francisco Franco.
India’s Modi urges speeding up of budget preparations
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked all government departments to advance budget-related processes by three months to implement projects faster in the next fiscal year, building on his strong electoral mandate to push h…
Zambian president Michael Sata’s body arrives home from London
LUSAKA (Reuters) – Hundreds of people lined Lusaka’s Great East road on Saturday as the body of Zambian president Michael Sata, who died in London this week, arrived in the country to be burial next week.
Six Ukraine soldiers die in eastern clashes with rebels: military
KIEV/DONETSK (Reuters) – Six Ukrainian soldiers were killed in the past 24 hours, a military spokesman said on Saturday, as a fragile ceasefire in the east was tested by heavy mortar fire in the separatist stronghold of Donetsk ahead of a rebel electio…
French nuclear plants in new mystery drone overflights: source
PARIS (Reuters) – Unidentified drones illegally overflew five French nuclear power plants overnight, a source with knowledge of the matter said on Saturday, in the latest of a series of unexplained incidents that have raised safety concerns.
