Libyan port rebel leader refuses to hand over oil ports to rival group
TUNIS (Reuters) – A former Libyan rebel leader, who seized oil ports in the past to campaign for eastern autonomy, said he had turned down an offer to join an armed group challenging the internationally-recognized government.
A majority of Scots would vote for independence now: poll
LONDON (Reuters) – A majority of Scots would back independence if another referendum were held today, according to a poll published on Saturday, just six weeks after Scotland voted against leaving the United Kingdom.
Egypt jails eight men over gay marriage video
CAIRO (Reuters) – Eight Egyptian men were sentenced to three years in jail on Saturday on charges of spreading indecent images and inciting debauchery after they appeared in an online video purporting to show the country’s first gay marriage ceremony.
Suicide car bomber kills 11 police, soldiers in Afghanistan
PUL-I-ALAM Afghanistan (Reuters) – A suicide car bomber killed at least 11 members of the security forces and wounded more than 20 civilians near a police checkpoint in eastern Logar province in Afghanistan on Saturday, local officials said.
China’s Xi calls on army to remember past in graft fight
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s military must not let down those who gave their lives for the Communist Party in the revolutionary struggle and must resolutely fight corruption, state media on Saturday quoted President Xi Jinping as saying after a high-lev…
Al Qaeda group seizes bastion of Western-backed rebels in Syria’s Idlib region
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamist militants affiliated to al Qaeda seized the last remaining stronghold of Western-backed rebels in Syria’s northwest province of Idlib on Saturday after days of fighting, rebels and a monitoring group said.
Nigeria’s purported Boko Haram ‘leader’ says has ‘married off’ girls: AFP
LAGOS (Reuters) – A man claiming to Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said that more than 200 girls kidnapped by the group six months ago from northeast Nigeria had been “married off” to its fighters, contradicting government claims they would soon be …
Gaza rocket hits southern Israel causing no damage or injuries: army
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A mortar fired from the Gaza Strip hit southern Israel, the Israeli military said on Saturday, the second such incident since a seven-week war in the Palestinian enclave ended in August.
Washington tries to check Hungary’s drift into Kremlin orbit
ZAGREB/BUDAPEST (Reuters) – The United States is mounting a diplomatic offensive to stop Hungary selling a stake in a Croatian energy firm to Russia, part of what Western powers see as Budapest’s dangerous drift into Moscow’s orbit.
China passes counter-espionage law
BEIJING (Reuters) – China passed a counter-espionage law on Saturday aimed at tightening state security and helping build a “comprehensive” national security system, state media reported.
