Three European engineers believed kidnapped in Libya: officials
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Three Europeans working for an Italian construction company have probably been kidnapped in Libya, officials from the Libyan and Italian governments said on Sunday.
Germany urges U.S. to explain suspected ‘double agent’ case
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government wants a quick and clear explanation from Washington for U.S. intelligence’s apparent contact with a German man arrested last week on suspicion of being a double agent, the Interior Minister said in a newspaper i…
Gunmen kill 17 in attacks on police stations, barracks in Uganda
KAMPALA (Reuters) – Gunmen killed 17 people when they attacked three police stations and a military barracks in western Uganda, in an area that was once the scene of an insurgency by Islamist rebels, the military said on Sunday.
Hillary Clinton says Merkel is Europe’s ‘greatest leader’
BERLIN (Reuters) – Former U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton called Chancellor Angela Merkel “the greatest leader in Europe” during a visit to Berlin on Sunday and said it was high time America had a woman leader too, though without confirming she…
Israel arrests suspects in Palestinian teen’s killing
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel has arrested Jewish suspects in the abduction and killing of a Palestinian teen whose death touched off violent protests in Jerusalem and in Israeli Arab towns, a security source said on Sunday.
Warehouse wall collapse kills eleven in south India
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Eleven builders were crushed under a warehouse wall in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Sunday, barely a week after the collapse of an eleven storey building killed some 60 people in the same state.
Yemen army continues fight in north and is attacked in south
SANAA/ADEN (Reuters) – Clashes in the north Yemen town of Omran continued on Sunday between the army and fighters from the Houthi movement after at least 104 people were killed on Saturday, while in the south six soldiers were shot dead by al Qaeda mil…
An EU agenda: keeping British in, Russians out, Germans down
ROME (Reuters) – The first secretary-general of NATO, Lord Ismay, once said the Western defense alliance was created “to keep the Americans in, the Russians out and the Germans down”.
Mexico police detain alleged serial child killer
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican police have detained a man who allegedly murdered four children and a woman in a small town in the center of the country, authorites said on Saturday, as statistics show a marked increased in the number of women being mu…
Behind Prabowo’s campaign to become Indonesia’s president, a questionable crew
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Jabbing his finger repeatedly in the air, presidential hopeful Prabowo Subianto shouted to supporters in a packed Jakarta stadium that the corrupt had no place in Indonesia.
