Gaza death toll rises; Hamas fires rockets at Tel Aviv
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli air strike on the home of Gaza’s police chief killed 18 people on Saturday, Gaza’s health ministry said, and Hamas fired the largest salvo of rockets yet on Tel Aviv since the start of the Jewish state’s offensive …
Disputed Afghan election to be recounted in full
KABUL (Reuters) – U.S. State Secretary John Kerry convinced Afghanistan’s feuding presidential candidates on Saturday to agree to a total recount of last month’s presidential election, which has threatened to split the country along ethnic lines.
Iraq headed for chaos unless politicians unite, U.N. says
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi soldiers backed by Shi’ite militias fought Sunni rebels for control of a military base northeast of Baghdad on Saturday as a U.N. envoy warned of chaos if divided lawmakers did not make progress on Sunday towards naming a gove…
Political novice bids to lead Slovenia recovery
LJUBLJANA (Reuters) – Slovenians look likely to hand power on Sunday to a center-left political novice hostile to the big-ticket privatizations that the country’s European partners see as central to fixing its finances long term.
Ukraine jets pound rebels after deadly missile attack
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian war planes bombarded separatists along a broad front on Saturday, inflicting huge losses, Kiev said, after President Petro Poroshenko said “scores and hundreds” would be made to pay for a deadly missile attack on Ukrainian fo…
Colombia oil pipeline paralyzed by rebel attack
(Reuters) – – Pumping of oil from one of Colombia’s most important pipelines, the Bicentenario, was paralyzed after an attack by leftist rebels, its operator said on Saturday.
Twenty-nine killed by gunmen in east Baghdad: police and hospital
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Some 29 people, 20 of them women, were killed on Saturday evening in an apartment building in eastern Baghdad by gunmen wearing a mix of plain clothes and camouflage, a police officer and a hospital official said.
Belfast parade ends without clashes for first time in years
BELFAST (Reuters) – A flashpoint Protestant parade in Northern Ireland’s capital Belfast ended without violence for the first time in decades on Saturday when marchers agreed to turn around before passing a Catholic area.
Syrian rebel commander assassinated in Jordan: police
AMMAN (Reuters) – A Syrian rebel commander has been shot dead in the Jordanian capital in the first such incident on the kingdom’s territory since the start of the conflict in Syria in 2011, a police source said on Saturday.
Shi’ite group hands back army camp to Yemeni government
SANAA (Reuters) – Shi’ite Muslim tribesmen handed back an army camp to the Yemeni government on Saturday, a spokesman for the group said, to try to defuse tensions caused by the capture of a provincial capital north of Sanaa this week.
