Colombia’s FARC declares cease-fire for election period: local radio
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s leftist FARC rebels have declared a cease-fire from June 9 to 30, covering the period of the presidential elections, local media network Caracol reported on Saturday.
Kosovo’s Thaci bids for third term, voters angry over poverty, graft
PRISTINA (Reuters) – Former guerrilla Hashim Thaci bids for a third term as prime minister of Kosovo on Sunday, under pressure from voters angry over poverty and corruption and a war crimes investigation that threatens to ensnare his former comrades-in…
Ukraine’s new leader stands up to Moscow over Crimea and Europe
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s new president Petro Poroshenko said his country would never give up Crimea and would not compromise on its path towards closer ties with Europe, spelling out a defiant message to Russia in his inaugural speech on Saturday.
Dozens killed in massacre in eastern Congo
SOUTH KIVU Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Up to 37 people including women and children were killed in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern province of South Kivu on Saturday in an attack that government officials blamed on a dispute over ca…
Oil tanker missing off Ghana coast amid report of piracy
ACCRA (Reuters) – A Liberia-flagged oil tanker has gone missing off the coast of Ghana and a senior port official told Reuters on Saturday the captain sent a distress call to say the vessel was attacked by pirates.
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.
