Roadside bomb kills eight civilians in southern Afghanistan
KANDAHAR Afghanistan (Reuters) – Eight civilians including five women were killed when a roadside bomb blew up their vehicle in southern Afghanistan, local officials said on Saturday.
Philippines arrests Australian over ties to militant group ISIL
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines on Friday arrested an Australian national with suspected links to foreign Islamist militants after he urged Philippine Muslims on social media sites to support conflicts in Iraq and Syria, recruiting them to go to the…
Kerry pushes for a deal in second day of talks on Afghan vote crisis
KABUL (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry scrambled to produce a deal by the end of Saturday to end Afghanistan’s election crisis, meeting for the second day with the country’s two presidential candidates and incumbent President Hamid Karzai…
China’s top paper says no place for a ‘new cold war’ with U.S.
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China and the United States must avoid a “new cold war” in their international relations, China’s top newspaper said on Saturday, in the wake of high level talks in Beijing between senior leaders of the world’s two largest economie…
Tribesmen bomb Yemen’s oil pipeline, halt crude flows: officials
SANAA (Reuters) – Tribesmen bombed Yemen’s main oil export pipeline on Saturday, halting crude flows, local officials said, disrupting an important source of revenue for the impoverished state.
German suspect was in contact with State Dept not U.S. spies: officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A German defense official under investigation for alleged spying was in contact with a U.S. State Department officer rather than American intelligence agencies, raising questions about whether any espionage occurred, U.S. officia…
Brazil’s leader sees no political fallout from World Cup defeat
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s humiliating defeat in the World Cup will have no impact on the elections in October, President Dilma Rousseff predicted on Friday as she prepares to hit the campaign trail to seek a second term.
Germany says expulsion of U.S. spy chief was inevitable
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s decision to ask the CIA station chief in Berlin to leave the country was an inevitable response to fresh allegations of U.S. spying on Berlin, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Friday.
U.N. Security Council to vote Monday on Syria aid access resolution
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council will vote Monday on a resolution to allow aid access at four border crossings into rebel-held areas of Syria without government consent, said Western diplomats, who were hopeful Russia and China will…
Ukraine says rebels will pay as missiles kill 23 soldiers
KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko vowed to “find and destroy” pro-Russian rebels who killed 23 servicemen and wounded nearly 100 in a missile attack on Friday.
