U.S.-led air strikes hit al Qaeda affiliate in Syria: monitor
AMMAN (Reuters) – Air strikes by a U.S.-led coalition set up to fight Islamic State targeted the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in northwest Syria overnight, an organisation that tracks violence in the Syrian civil war reported on Thursday.
Colombia’s FARC kill two over memorial to ex-leader, bomb pipeline
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Leftist FARC guerrillas killed two members of an indigenous community in southwestern Colombia on Wednesday apparently for removing a billboard commemorating the death of their former leader Alfonso Cano in the region three years ago…
PDVSA says controls fire at Curacao’s Isla refinery, three injured
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA on Wednesday said operations were normal at the 335,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Isla refinery on the island of Curacao after it controlled a fire that injured three people.
Gunmen storm Libya’s El Sharara oilfield, shut down production
BENGHAZI/TUNIS (Reuters) – Gunmen seized Libya’s major El Sharara oilfield, looting equipment and shooting as frightened workers sought shelter, oil sources said on Wednesday, in another blow to the country’s oil industry which has been subjected to pr…
Special Report: Left to fight alone, Afghanistan battles to save wounded
LASHKAR GAH Afghanistan (Reuters) – Omar Gul was on duty at a remote police checkpoint in Helmand’s restive district of Sangin when the station came under fire.
Argentina president stable in hospital, will need rest after release
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez was in stable condition on Wednesday while being treated in hospital for a bacterial infection of the colon, and will have to rest up for at least 10 days after her eventual discharge, a…
West African bloc presses Burkina for civilian leader
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Three West African presidents urged Burkina Faso on Wednesday to appoint a civilian transitional leader within days to guide the country to elections next year following the people’s overthrow of longtime ruler Blaise Compaore l…
Demolition of remaining Syria chemical arms sites to begin soon
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The demolition of a dozen remaining chemical weapons production facilities in Syria is scheduled to begin later this month while work will continue on the verification of the government’s declarations, Australia’s U.N. envoy …
Bomb kills two, wounds 14 on trains in and around Cairo: state media
CAIRO (Reuters) – A bomb planted in a train killed two Egyptian policemen and wounded 11 other people when it exploded at a station in the Nile Delta province of Menufia late on Wednesday, state television said.
Jordan-Israel relations in crisis over al-Aqsa mosque strife
JERUSALEM/AMMAN (Reuters) – Increasing strife over Jerusalem’s most volatile holy site plunged relations between Israel and Jordan into crisis on Wednesday, with Amman recalling its ambassador for the first time since the countries’ 1994 peace treaty.
