Israel claims West Bank land for possible settlement use, draws U.S. rebuke
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel announced on Sunday a land appropriation in the occupied West Bank that an anti-settlement group termed the biggest in 30 years, drawing Palestinian condemnation and a U.S. rebuke.
Explosion fells building outside Paris, killing at least 4
ROSNY-SOUS-BOIS France (Reuters) – A building in a Paris suburb collapsed after an explosion on Sunday morning, killing two children and two women, and teams were searching the rubble for four other people still missing by evening.
Putin calls for talks on east Ukraine ‘statehood’; rebels fire on ship
MOSCOW/MARIUPOL Ukraine (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Sunday for immediate talks on the “statehood” of southern and eastern Ukraine, although his spokesman said this did not mean Moscow now endorsed rebel calls for independence…
Rebels in Central African Republic expel government ministers
BANGUI (Reuters) – A grouping of former Seleka rebels in Central African Republic said on Sunday it had expelled from its ranks several members serving in a new government seeking to stop a cycle of deadly clashes between Muslims and Christians.
U.N., Fiji say no word on location of peacekeepers abducted in Golan Heights
UNITED NATIONS/EIN ZIVAN Golan Heights (Reuters) – The head of the Fijian army said on Sunday negotiations for the release of 44 soldiers abducted by an al Qaeda-linked group on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights were being pursued as the United Nati…
Several Yemeni soldiers killed in al Qaeda attacks in south Yemen
ADEN Yemen (Reuters) – Suspected al Qaeda militants carried out two separate suicide car bombings against military locations in the south Yemen province of Shabwa on Sunday, killing several Yemeni soldiers, local officials and medical sources said.
Pakistan PM still surrounded by protesters after deadly clashes
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s powerful army said on Sunday any further use of force to resolve an escalating political crisis would only worsen the situation, after weeks of protests demanding Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s resignation turned violent…
Al Arabiya airs video of man it says is British hostage in Yemen
DUBAI (Reuters) – Al Arabiya television on Sunday aired a video showing a man it said was a British oil worker kidnapped in Yemen in February.
Suicide bomber kills 37 in western Iraq: police officers, medical official
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Thirty seven people were killed when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-packed Humvee military vehicle into a construction site, used by the army and police, according to two police officers and a medical official.
Libyan armed faction takes over U.S. embassy annex in Tripoli
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Members of a Libyan militia have taken over an annex of the U.S. embassy in Tripoli but have not broken into the main compound where the United States evacuated all of its staff last month, U.S. officials said on Sunday.
