Insurgents fight Iraqi forces in city of Mosul
MOSUL Iraq (Reuters) – Dozens of people including civilians were killed on Friday in fighting between Sunni Islamist insurgents and Iraqi government troops in the northern city of Mosul, a day after a curfew was imposed there.
Suspect charged in shooting spree that claimed three Canadian Mounties
MONCTON New Brunswick (Reuters) – A 24-year-old man was charged with murder on Friday in the slayings of three Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers during a shooting spree in the eastern Canadian city of Moncton.
Rebels down Ukraine army plane on eve of Poroshenko’s swearing-in
DONETSK/LUHANSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Pro-Russian separatists shot down a Ukrainian army plane as fighting raged in the eastern town of Slaviansk on Friday, a day before the inauguration of pro-European billionaire businessman Petro Poroshenko as Ukraine…
More than 60 migrants drown in boat sinking off Yemen: U.N.
GENEVA (Reuters) – At least 60 African migrants and two Yemeni crew perished in the treacherous waters off Yemen’s coast last weekend, in a boat sinking that has just come to light and is believed to be the deadliest there this year, the United Nations…
Zimbabwe’s Mugabe calls information minister ‘devil incarnate’
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe on Friday branded his information minister a “devil incarnate”, accusing him of appointing editors of state-owned newspapers who were sympathetic to the opposition.
Spain to pursue inquiry into killing of cameraman by U.S. shell in Iraq
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s High Court ruled on Friday that a criminal investigation into the killing of Spanish cameraman Jose Couso by a U.S. tank shell in Iraq in 2003 could be pursued, despite a new law placing limits on judicial powers in internati…
Rising seas wash Japanese war dead from Pacific island graves
BONN, Germany (Reuters) – Rising sea levels have washed the remains of at least 26 Japanese World War Two soldiers from their graves on a low-lying Pacific archipelago, the foreign minister of the Marshall Islands said on Friday.
Hezbollah says Syria vote means foes can’t demand Assad quit
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s landslide election victory means that his civil war foes can no longer call for his departure as a precondition for peace, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday.
Pope’s Mideast prayer meeting not political meddling: Vatican
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis hopes an unprecedented meeting of the Israeli and Palestinian presidents at the Vatican on Sunday can help end “eternal negotiations” and lead to peace but he has no wish to meddle in Middle East politics, the Vati…
Exclusive: Egypt turns to Western advisers, signaling possible reforms – sources
CAIRO/LONDON (Reuters) – Western advisers are drawing up plans for reshaping the Egyptian economy, sources said, with the apparent blessing of president-elect Abdel Fattah al-Sisi who so far has spoken only vaguely in public about reviving the state’s …
