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.
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.
