China’s AgBank chairman to assume provincial party post: government website
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The chairman of Agricultural Bank of China Ltd (AgBank), the country’s third-largest listed lender, plans to take on the role of deputy party secretary in the country’s northern province of Jilin.
Explosion fells building outside Paris, killing at least four
ROSNY-SOUS-BOIS France (Reuters) – A building in a Paris suburb collapsed after an explosion on Sunday morning, killing two children and two women, and teams were searching the rubble for four other people still missing by evening.
Jubilant Iraqi forces break two-month siege of Amerli: officials
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi security forces backed by Shi’ite militias on Sunday broke the two-month siege of Amerli by Islamic State militants and entered the northern town, officials said.
Jubilant Iraqi forces break two-month siege of Amerli: officials
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi security forces backed by Shi’ite militias on Sunday broke the two-month siege of Amerli by Islamic State militants and entered the northern town, officials said.
Israel claims West Bank land for possible settlement use, draws U.S. rebuke
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel announced on Sunday a land appropriation in the occupied West Bank that an anti-settlement group termed the biggest in 30 years, drawing Palestinian condemnation and a U.S. rebuke.
Explosion fells building outside Paris, killing at least 4
ROSNY-SOUS-BOIS France (Reuters) – A building in a Paris suburb collapsed after an explosion on Sunday morning, killing two children and two women, and teams were searching the rubble for four other people still missing by evening.
Putin calls for talks on east Ukraine ‘statehood’; rebels fire on ship
MOSCOW/MARIUPOL Ukraine (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Sunday for immediate talks on the “statehood” of southern and eastern Ukraine, although his spokesman said this did not mean Moscow now endorsed rebel calls for independence…
Rebels in Central African Republic expel government ministers
BANGUI (Reuters) – A grouping of former Seleka rebels in Central African Republic said on Sunday it had expelled from its ranks several members serving in a new government seeking to stop a cycle of deadly clashes between Muslims and Christians.
U.N., Fiji say no word on location of peacekeepers abducted in Golan Heights
UNITED NATIONS/EIN ZIVAN Golan Heights (Reuters) – The head of the Fijian army said on Sunday negotiations for the release of 44 soldiers abducted by an al Qaeda-linked group on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights were being pursued as the United Nati…
Several Yemeni soldiers killed in al Qaeda attacks in south Yemen
ADEN Yemen (Reuters) – Suspected al Qaeda militants carried out two separate suicide car bombings against military locations in the south Yemen province of Shabwa on Sunday, killing several Yemeni soldiers, local officials and medical sources said.
