Girl killed, eight people hurt in Iraqi airstrike: Kurdish official
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A 12-year-old girl has been killed and eight other civilians wounded in an Iraqi airstrike on a Kurdish-held town in Iraq’s northern province of Salahuddin, a Kurdish security forces official said.
Italy rescues more than 2,600 boat migrants over weekend
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s search and rescue mission saved more than 2,600 migrants from boats in the Mediterranean over the weekend, the navy said on Monday, as the number reaching Italy from Africa this year surges to a record.
Putin says Russia must boost arms exports: RIA news agency
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia should boost its arms exports to help the industry upgrade and add more high-end jobs to the labor market, President Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying on Monday.
How politics nearly ruined deal to end S.Africa’s longest strike
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Forty-eight hours after talks to end South Africa’s longest strike hit a brick wall when the mining minister suddenly pulled out, a bishop and an anti-establishment corporate lawyer engineered a deal at a secret meeting in a ri…
Indonesian presidential hopeful prays Mecca trip will win votes
JAKARTA (Reuters) – The front-runner in Wednesday’s Indonesian presidential election has flown to Mecca on a whirlwind pilgrimage in a last-ditch bid to win voters among the world’s largest Muslim population and put to rest damaging suggestions that he…
Sri Lanka asylum seekers returned by Australia face ‘rigorous imprisonment’
SYDNEY/COLOMBO (Reuters) – Forty-one Sri Lankan asylum seekers returned by Australia are to be charged with leaving the country illegally and those found guilty face “rigorous imprisonment”, police said on Monday, fuelling concerns about Australian pol…
Britain pledges to investigate child sex abuse conspiracy claims
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain pledged on Monday to investigate allegations that politicians may have sexually abused children in the 1980s and then used their position to scuttle attempts to uncover their crimes.
Modi faces uphill task to put India’s railways on track
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Departing Platform One at New Delhi station last week was India’s fastest train: the test run of the Delhi-Agra express – dubbed “semi-high speed” by local media – topped a record-breaking 160 kilometres per hour on its way to the…
Israel’s Netanyahu phones father of murdered Palestinian teen
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s prime minister phoned the father of a murdered Palestinian teenager on Monday to promise that the attackers would be prosecuted, the government said, as anger over the killing fuelled Arab street protests.
Military chopper crash kills 16 in Vietnam capital
HANOI (Reuters) – A military helicopter crashed into a residential area on the fringes of Vietnam’s capital Hanoi on Monday, killing 16 people and seriously injuring five, the army said.
