Iraq parliament session to vote on government scheduled for Monday
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi parliament is scheduled to be convened on Monday night to vote on Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi’s proposed cabinet, the parliament speaker Selim al-Jabouri’s office said on Sunday.
France’s Hollande should not seek second term as president: poll
PARIS (Reuters) – Most French people do not want Francois Hollande to seek a second term in the country’s 2017 presidential election, a poll showed on Sunday, in the latest blow to the president whose popularity is already at record lows.
Tunisia’s main Islamist party to stay out of presidential election
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s main Islamist party, Ennahda, said on Sunday it would not contest a presidential election in November, in the interest of ensuring an inclusive government for all Tunisians.
Obama to set out plan to go on offensive against Islamic State
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will explain to Americans and congressional leaders this week his plan to go on the offensive against Islamic State militants, who he said could eventually become a threat to the United States.
Ten killed in plane crash in Colombian jungle
BOGOTA (Reuters) – A small airplane crashed minutes after take-off in Colombia’s southern jungle on Saturday, killing all 10 people aboard, the country’s civil aviation agency said.
UK scrambles to promise more powers if Scots reject independence
LONDON (Reuters) – The British government is scrambling to respond to a lurch in the opinion polls toward a vote for Scottish independence this month by promising a range of new powers for Scotland if it chooses to stay within the United Kingdom.
Two Australians killed in Kenya bus crash, several injured
NAROK Kenya (Reuters) – Two Australian tourists were killed on Sunday when their luxury bus crashed into a river along a steep section of a road in southwest Kenya, police said.
Fueling drug gangs’ impunity, unidentified corpses pile up in Mexico
MAZATLAN Mexico (Reuters) – In Mexico’s blood-soaked northern state of Sinaloa, a simple gravestone adorned with pink, blue and yellow plastic flowers marks the tomb of 42-year-old assistant carpenter Carlos Montano.
Britain to offer NATO summit security fences to help France stop migrants
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is offering to donate 20 km (13 miles) of steel fencing from last week’s NATO summit in Wales to help French authorities struggling to control a growing number of illegal immigrants trying to cross the English Channel to Brit…
Abe becomes first Japanese PM to visit Sri Lanka in 24 years
COLOMBO/DHAKA (Reuters) – Shinzo Abe on Sunday became the first Japanese prime minister to visit Sri Lanka in 24 years, on the second leg of a South Asian tour that sought to assert Tokyo’s interest in a region where it has ceded influence to China.
