Venezuela’s Maduro approval rating drops to 30 percent, poll says
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s approval rating dropped to 30.2 percent in September from 35.4 percent in July, according to a survey by pollster Datanalisis, amid an ongoing economic crisis that has weighed on his popularity….
Bus accident in Bangladesh kills 32 and injures dozens
DHAKA (Reuters) – At least 32 people were killed and dozens injured when two buses collided head-on in northwest Bangladesh on Monday, police said.
At least 30 killed in northeast Nigeria clashes despite ‘truce’
MAIDUGURI (Reuters) – At least 25 suspected Boko Haram insurgents were killed in clashes between soldiers and the Islamist militants in northeast Nigeria and five civilians were killed in fighting elsewhere in the region, a military source and resident…
Aquino rejects call to annul U.S.-Philippines forces agreement over murder case
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine President Benigno Aquino rejected on Monday calls to tear up the Visiting Forces Agreement with the United States after an American serviceman was charged with the murder of a transgender Filipino outside a former U.S Navy…
Saudi Arabia steps up beheadings; some see political message
RIYADH (Reuters) – Immediately after his sword falls, the Saudi Arabian executioner steps backwards to avoid soiling his clothes with the blood of the condemned man, whose headless body can be seen slumping over backwards in the shaky online film.
Hope and obstacles as Russia and Ukraine seek gas deal
MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) – A tentative agreement between the Ukrainian and Russian presidents has raised hopes of ending a dispute in which Moscow has halted natural gas supplies to Kiev, but several obstacles still have be overcome.
Reform-minded outsider Widodo takes over as Indonesia’s president
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Joko Widodo took over as president of the world’s third-largest democracy on Monday with supporters’ hopes high, but pressing economic problems and sceptical rivals set to test the former furniture salesman.
Lufthansa says strike results in 1,511 canceled flights
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Lufthansa has canceled 1,511 flights as a result of a strike being held by pilots that runs until midnight on Tuesday, a spokesman for the airline said on Monday.
Ukraine, Russia gas deal may be just enough to get through winter
LONDON (Reuters) – An interim natural gas deal by Moscow and Kiev, reached over the weekend, could supply just enough to get Ukraine through the winter as long as the weather does not become unusually cold, Reuters research shows.
EU’s Barroso warns Britain against ‘historic mistake’ on immigration
LONDON (Reuters) – European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday he risked upsetting allies and losing international clout if he pursued an anti-immigration agenda designed to placate domestic vot…
