Merkel warns SPD to shun coalition with Left in eastern state
APOLDA Germany (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel warned the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), her junior partners in national government, against forming a coalition to install the first hardline Left party regional premier after Sunday polls in t…
Thirty killed in truck crash in Central African Republic
BANGUI (Reuters) – At least 30 people were killed when an truck carrying oil and laden with passengers plunged into a ravine in Central African Republic, a local official said on Saturday.
Brazil’s Silva, a lifelong environmentalist, courts big agriculture
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian presidential candidate Marina Silva, an icon of the green movement, is cozying up to old adversaries in the sugar and ethanol industry as she seeks to win over the powerful farm lobby ahead of next month’s election.
China’s Hong Kong chief says remarks to lawmakers were misrepresented in media
HONG KONG (Reuters) – China’s most senior official in Hong Kong, Zhang Xiaoming, said on Friday that remarks he had made to pro-democracy lawmakers in an August 19 meeting had been misrepresented in media reports.
U.N. threatens to cut Afghanistan aid if election staff harassed
KABUL (Reuters) – The United Nations threatened on Saturday to cut aid to Afghanistan if its staff are harassed, responding to tensions surrounding its participation in a drawn-out and bitter investigation into fraud in the still-unresolved presidentia…
Nigeria church building collapse kills three, more feared dead
LAGOS (Reuters) – At least three people were killed when a Lagos guest house being built by one of Nigeria’s biggest Christian churches collapsed, and the final toll was likely to be higher, rescue officials said on Saturday.
Pope says world’s many conflicts amount to piecemeal World War Three
REDIPUGLIA Italy (Reuters) – Pope Francis said on Saturday the spate of conflicts around the globe today were effectively a “piecemeal” Third World War, condemning the arms trade and “plotters of terrorism” sowing death and destruction.
Polls show narrow opposition win in Sweden vote
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s center-left opposition leads the field ahead of Sunday’s general election, but a poll on Saturday pointed to a narrow victory and a complex task in building a stable government after the vote.
Prominent Muslim Brotherhood figures to leave Qatar
CAIRO (Reuters) – Some senior figures in Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood have agreed to leave Qatar, a prominent member of the group said on Saturday, following months of pressure on the Gulf Arab state from its neighbors to stop backing the Islami…
Putin trying to destroy Ukraine, says its PM
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s prime minister said on Saturday Russian President Vladimir Putin aimed to destroy Ukraine as an independent country and said only NATO could defend the ex-Soviet republic from external aggression.
