Pope and Argentine president ‘talk finance’ in private at Vatican
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Argentine president Cristina Fernandez visited Pope Francis at the Vatican on Saturday, where she said the compatriots talked about the global financial system and Argentina’s economy over lunch.
Yemen president calls for settlement on third day of clashes
SANAA (Reuters) – Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi called on Saturday for a U.N.-brokered political settlement with Shi’ite rebels as some of the worst violence seen in the capital for years raged for a third day.
At least 36 killed in shootout with Islamists in northeast Nigerian town
MAIDUGURI Nigeria (Reuters) – Fighters from Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram stormed the northeastern town of Mainok on Friday, sparking a gun battle that killed at least 36 people and continued into Saturday, two security sources said.
Brown says London must keep promise to Scotland as political truce ends
EDINBURGH/LONDON (Reuters) – Former prime minister Gordon Brown urged British leaders on Saturday to keep their promise to grant further powers to Scotland after it voted to remain in the United Kingdom, as a consensus between London’s main parties eva…
Egypt upholds death sentence for five in killing of policeman
An Egyptian court upheld death sentences on Saturday against five Islamists convicted of charges including killing a policeman and carrying weapons, judicial sources said. Judge Moataz Khafagi had referred the case to the country’s highest Sunni Muslim…
Four killed in cross-border Boko Haram attack in northern Cameroon
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Four civilians were killed in the remote north of Cameroon in a cross-border attack by Boko Haram militants, according to state radio.
Storm leaves 200,000 displaced in Philippines, heads for Taiwan
MANILA (Reuters) – Storm Fung-Wong churned towards Taiwan on Saturday after killing at least five people in the Philippines, and forcing some 200,000 people into temporary shelter, including in the capital Manila, to escape massive flooding.
Turkey secures release of hostages held by Islamic State
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish intelligence agents brought 46 hostages seized by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq back to Turkey on Saturday after more than three months in captivity, in what President Tayyip Erdogan described as a covert rescue op…
French jets strike in Iraq, expanding U.S.-led campaign against Islamic State
BAGHDAD/PARIS (Reuters) – French jets struck a suspected Islamic State target in Iraq for the first time on Friday, expanding a U.S.-led military campaign against militants who have seized a third of the country and also control large parts of neighbor…
North Korea says imprisoned American tried to become ‘second Snowden’
SEOUL (Reuters) – An American recently sentenced to six years hard labor by a North Korean court pretended to have secret U.S. information and was deliberately arrested in a bid to become famous and meet U.S. missionary Kenneth Bae in a North Korean pr…
