Vice-principal of South Korea school in ferry disaster commits suicide
MOKPO/JINDO, South Korea (Reuters) – The vice-principal of a South Korean high school who accompanied hundreds of pupils on a ferry that capsized has committed suicide, police said on Friday, as hopes faded of finding any of the 274 missing alive.
Avalanche kills at least 12 guides in deadliest incident on Mount Everest
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – An avalanche sweeping down Mount Everest killed at least 12 Nepali guides on Friday in what may be the deadliest single incident on the world’s highest peak.
Avalanche kills at least 12 guides in deadliest incident on Mount Everest
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – An avalanche sweeping down Mount Everest killed at least 12 Nepali guides on Friday in what may be the deadliest single incident on the world’s highest peak.
Algeria’s ailing Bouteflika wins re-election
ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the independence veteran in power for 15 years, won re-election on Friday with more than 80 percent of a vote opponents dismissed as fraud to keep an ailing leader in power.
Top Hollande aide quits in conflict of interest row
CLERMONT-FERRAND, France (Reuters) – A senior adviser to French President Francois Hollande quit on Friday over accusations of past conflict of interest linked to his work for pharmaceutical firms, adding to pressure on the unpopular Socialist leader w…
Italy PM Renzi cuts taxes for 10 million low earners
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Friday cut taxes for 10 million low earners to try to boost household spending after a two-year recession, making good on a promise he made after taking office two months ago.
Special Report: How the U.S. made its Putin problem worse
WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK (Reuters) – In September 2001, as the U.S. reeled from the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Vladimir Putin supported Washington’s imminent invasion of Afghanistan in ways that would have been inconce…
Italy gives wife, daughter, of wanted Kazakh banker refugee status
ROME (Reuters) – The wife and daughter of a Kazakh tycoon who is wanted in three countries for alleged fraud have been granted refugee status in Italy, their lawyer said on Friday.
Pakistani police arrest 6 suspected militant assassins
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani police said on Friday they have arrested six men suspected of being behind a string of high-profile killings and assassination attempts linked to a banned sectarian group.
Erdogan challenges social media in top Turkish court
ANKARA (Reuters) – Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan applied to Turkey’s constitutional court on Friday to challenge the alleged violation of his and his family’s rights by social media, a senior official in his office told Reuters.
