Baghdad car bombs kill 60; militants storm Ramadi university
BAGHDAD/RAMADI Iraq (Reuters) – A wave of car bombs exploded across Baghdad on Saturday, killing more than 60 people, and militants stormed a university campus in western Iraq, security and medical sources said.
Afghan election front-runner escapes assassination attempt
KABUL (Reuters) – Abdullah Abdullah, front-runner in Afghanistan’s presidential election, escaped assassination on Friday when two bombs blew up outside a hotel where he had just staged a rally, killing six people.
Senior U.S., Iranian officials to meet Monday-Tuesday in Geneva: U.S.
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The United States said on Saturday it will send its No. 2 diplomat to Geneva to meet senior Iranian officials on Monday and Tuesday in what appeared an effort to break a logjam in wider negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear…
More than 60 people killed in wave of car bombs across Baghdad
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A wave of car bombs exploded in mostly Shi’ite districts across the Iraqi capital late on Saturday, killing more than 60 people, security and medical sources said.
Egypt court sentences 10 Brotherhood supporters to death: sources
CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court sentenced 10 supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death in absentia on Saturday but postponed the sentencing of its leader and other senior members, judicial sources said.
Indian government vows to uphold freedom of expression
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s new government sought to ease concerns that freedom of expression is under threat on Saturday, promising to strengthen the independence of the state-run broadcaster and to consider allowing more foreign investment in India…
Somali pirates free 11 crew kidnapped in 2010
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Eleven crew members held hostage by Somali pirates for more than three years have been released, regional and United Nations officials said on Saturday.
Leading candidate withdraws from Israeli presidential race
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, one of two leading candidates to succeed Shimon Peres as Israel’s next head of state, withdrew from the race on Saturday, a day after police questioned him under caution over a loan he had received.
Colombian peace talks turn toward victims
HAVANA (Reuters) – Colombia’s government and leftist FARC guerrillas both agreed to take responsibility for war victims on Saturday, moving forward on peace talks with a week to go before presidential elections.
New head of European conservatives dismisses Cameron’s EU demands
BERLIN (Reuters) – The new head of the biggest group of conservatives in the European Parliament dismissed on Saturday demands by British Prime Minister David Cameron to put the brakes on European integration.
