Venezuela’s Maduro to visit China, OPEC nations amid cash crunch
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday he will visit China and several unspecified OPEC countries during a week-long tour meant to improve the South American nation’s finances, which have been weakened by tumbling crude …
Italy puts a break on new tax bill after Berlusconi-related uproar
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s government halted an overhaul of tax laws on Sunday after a controversy erupted over whether the proposed measures might annul the 2012 tax fraud conviction of former leader Silvio Berlusconi.
Islamist group seizes Damascus suburb from rivals: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamist fighters seized a suburb east of Damascus on Sunday after driving out a smaller rival insurgent group in deadly clashes, a monitoring group said, the latest example of rebel infighting in Syria’s nearly four-year conflict.
Abbas seeks to re-submit statehood bid to U.N. Security Council
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday he was discussing with Jordan plans to resubmit to the United Nations Security Council a resolution calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state that failed to w…
Car bomb targeting Somali security forces kills four civilians
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A car bomb targeting security officials killed four civilians in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday, a government official said.
Captured Greek guerrilla was preparing to attack prison: police
ATHENS (Reuters) – Fugitive Marxist guerrilla Christodoulos Xiros was preparing an armed assault on one of Athens’ main prisons when he was recaptured on Saturday near the capital, police said on Sunday.
One Cuban migrant dead in capsizing off Cayman Islands
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (Reuters) – A Cuban migrant drowned after a makeshift vessel with four passengers overturned in rough seas off the Cayman Islands on Saturday afternoon, local officials said.
Boko Haram seizes army base in northeast Nigeria
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Islamist militants have overrun an army base in the remote northeast Nigerian town of Baga, two security sources said on Sunday.
Weather frustrates AirAsia search divers, no ‘pings’ detected
PANGKALAN BUN/SURABAYA, Indonesia (Reuters) – Bad weather forced divers trying to identify sunken wreckage from a crashed AirAsia passenger jet to abort their mission on Sunday and Indonesian officials said they had not yet picked up any signals from t…
Turmoil in Eurosceptic AfD party could help Merkel
BERLIN (Reuters) – A battle for control of the German Eurosceptic upstart Alternative for Germany (AfD) exposed deep ideological rifts at the weekend within a party that has been stealing votes from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives.
