Colombia’s Santos opens ‘Congress of peace,’ urges deal with rebels
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos opened a new session of Congress on Sunday, calling on lawmakers to back government efforts to strike a peace deal with Marxist rebels to end 50 years of war.
Exclusive: U.N. Security Council to vote Monday on Ukraine resolution
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council is due to vote Monday on a resolution that would condemn the downing of a Malaysian passenger plane in Ukraine and demands that those responsible be held accountable and that armed groups don’t compr…
Gunmen kill at least four in Kenyan port city, scatter leaflets
MOMBASA Kenya (Reuters) – Gunmen killed at least four people and injured several others in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa on Sunday, police said.
Five killed, 24 wounded in Nicaragua convoy attack
MANAGUA (Reuters) – Shots fired at a convoy of vehicles returning from a national celebration in western Nicaragua early on Sunday left five dead and 24 wounded, a government website reported.
Mortar fire south of Baghdad kills nine, police, hospital sources say
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Nine people were killed in a mainly Shi’ite town south of Baghdad late on Sunday by mortar fire that hit near a Shi’ite religious site, police and hospital sources said.
Thai Airways reform to test business credentials of military government
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s new military rulers have singled out the country’s troubled flagship airline as the first state enterprise to undergo reform, an exercise that will test their unproven business acumen and ability to separate politics from…
Iran eliminates sensitive stockpile under interim nuclear deal: IAEA
VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran has moved to eliminate its most sensitive stockpile of enriched uranium gas under an interim nuclear deal reached with six world powers last year, according to a monthly update by the U.N. nuclear watchdog obtained by Reuters on…
China sends spy ship off Hawaii during U.S.-led drills
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China has sent a spy ship to international waters off of Hawaii during a giant U.S.-led naval exercise involving 22 countries, even as Beijing participates in the drills for the first time this year, the U.S. Navy said on Sunday….
Nigeria Islamists kill more than 40 in northeast
MAIDUGURI Nigeria – Suspected Islamists raided the remote northeast Nigerian town of Damboa over the weekend, shooting dead more than 40 residents and burning down houses in a familiar pattern of killing that has forced tens of thousands to flee their …
Woman in Mexico children’s home probe freed without charges
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A controversial woman at the center of an abuse scandal at a children’s home in western Mexico has been set free after a preliminary probe cleared her of wrongdoing, a spokesman for the attorney general’s office said on Sunday.
