Commonwealth Games fails to give Scottish nationalists a lift: poll
EDINBURGH (Reuters) – Success for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games has not translated into a boost for the nation’s independence movement, according to a poll on Sunday, with time running out ahead of the September referendum.
New Libyan parliament meets far from urban battlegrounds
TOBRUK Libya (Reuters) – Libya’s newly elected House of Representatives held its first session on Saturday, holed up in a heavily guarded provincial hotel as armed factions turned the two biggest cities, Tripoli and Benghazi, into battlefields.
Late to the party, Obama seeks bigger U.S. Africa role
CAMP LEMONNIER Djibouti/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Ask Major-General Wayne W. Grigsby Jr., the top U.S. military officer in Africa, how he thinks U.S. and European-backed African troops are faring in their war on Islamist militants in Somalia, and his an…
Lebanese army battles gunmen at Syria border, 16 killed
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Lebanese army battled Islamist fighters near the Syrian border on Saturday, killing 11 militants, a security official said, in a move against al Qaeda-linked gunmen who earlier had seized a police station and killed two soldiers….
Roadside bomb kills three women, wounds seven in Somali capital
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Three women were killed in the Somali capital on Sunday, and seven others were wounded when a remotely detonated bomb exploded in a busy market, police and witnesses said.
India’s Modi heads to Nepal in regional diplomacy push
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarked on a visit to Nepal on Sunday to help speed up negotiations on a power trade pact that is at the center of a new effort to improve ties with a neighbor that serves as a buffer with Chin…
Almost 100 killed during attacks in China’s Xinjiang last week
BEIJING (Reuters) – Masked militants attacked civilians, police and officials last week in China’s far western region of Xinjiang leading to almost 100 deaths, the government said on Sunday, giving fresh details on one of the worst incidents of unrest …
Magnitude 6.6 earthquake strikes near Papua New Guinea; no tsunami expected
(Reuters) – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck off the coast of Manus Island in Papua New Guinea on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
Israel says Hamas will pay heavy price for more attacks
JERUSALEM/GAZA (Reuters) – Israel will go on fighting Hamas in the Gaza Strip even after the army completes its core mission of destroying the cross-border tunnels used by Palestinian militants to attack its territory, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
Lebanese army battles gunmen at Syria border, 16 killed
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Lebanese army battled Islamist fighters near the Syrian border on Saturday, killing 11 militants, a security official said, in a move against al Qaeda-linked gunmen who earlier had seized a police station and killed two soldiers….
