After clashes, rush after some Tripoli flights resume
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Flights have resumed from two small airports in Libya triggering a rush of Libyans and expatriates trying to leave the country on Saturday after fighting closed the main international airport a week earlier.
Iraq president Talabani returns after long absence
ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) – President Jalal Talabani returned to Iraq on Saturday for the first time since he suffered a stroke a year and a half ago and was flown abroad for medical treatment, state television said.
Spanish police arrest suspected Colombian crime lord
MADRID (Reuters) – Police in the Spanish region of Alicante said on Saturday they had arrested a 40-year-old man who they identified as the head of the military wing of a violent Colombian drug cartel and one of Colombia’s most wanted criminals.
Man triggers security alert in Geneva by stopping tram
GENEVA (Reuters) – A man who set off a security alert in Geneva on Saturday when he stopped a tram to retrieve bags that included a book with a radical Islamist image in it appears to have been drunk, police said.
Italy says 19 boat migrants die, thousands rescued this week
ROME (Reuters) – Nineteen people died trying to reach Italy on a boat packed with hundreds of migrants, probably poisoned by carbon monoxide fumes from its engines, said the Italian Navy on Saturday, which has rescued more than 4,000 migrants in the la…
Islamic State killed 270 in Syrian gas field battle: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Militant group Islamic State killed 270 soldiers, guards and staff when they captured a Syrian gas field on Thursday in the bloodiest clash yet between the al Qaeda offshoot and President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, a monitoring group …
Nine killed, more than 40 injured in multiple bus crash in Germany
BERLIN (Reuters) – Nine people were killed and more than 40 injured when several buses crashed into each other on a German motorway near the eastern city of Dresden, police said on Saturday.
U.N. accuses Islamic State of executions, rape, forced child recruitment in Iraq
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The United Nations accused Islamic State fighters in Iraq of executions, rape and forced recruitment of children during a campaign to seize much of northern Iraq, part of a conflict it said has killed almost 5,600 civilians this yea…
Saudi Arabia investigates imams who did not condemn al Qaeda attack: paper
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s Islamic Affairs Ministry is investigating 17 mosque imams in the capital Riyadh for not using their Friday sermons to denounce an al Qaeda attack this month, the English daily Arab News reported on Saturday.
Drone strike kills 11 militants in northwest Pakistan
BANNU Pakistan (Reuters) – A U.S. drone strike in volatile northwestern Pakistan killed 11 militants on Saturday, a Taliban commander and security officials said, as Pakistani security forces press ahead with an offensive in a Taliban stronghold near t…
