Boko Haram kidnaps wife of Cameroon’s vice PM, kills at least three
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Nigerian Boko Haram militants kidnapped the wife of Cameroon’s vice prime minister and killed at least three people on Sunday in a cross-border attack involving more than 200 assailants in the northern town of Kolofata, Cameroon off…
Bulgaria’s Socialists pick new leader as election looms
SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria’s scandal-tainted Socialist Party (BSP) picked a new leader on Sunday with the task of winning back disaffected voters before an early parliamentary election set for October 5 in the European Union’s poorest member state.
Bomb attack on church in Nigeria’s Kano kills five
KANO (Reuters) – A bomb attack on a Catholic church in northern Nigeria’s main city of Kano killed five people and wounded eight on Sunday, a senior police officer said.
Syria retakes Homs gas field from hardline group
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian army said on Sunday it recaptured a gas field east of the central city of Homs that was seized by hardline Islamic State fighters earlier this month.
Costa Concordia completes its voyage to the scrap yard
GENOA Italy (Reuters) – The wrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner limped into its last port on Sunday, when it was towed to the northern Italian city of Genoa to be broken up for scrap, two-and-a-half years after running aground and sinking with the los…
China to hold military exercises in southeast coastal areas
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will hold military exercises in southeast coastal areas beginning on Tuesday, the Ministry of National Defence said on Sunday.
A nation in peril – Iraq’s struggle to hold together
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Salman Khaled has already lived through Baghdad’s sectarian disintegration; with Iraq now splintering into Shi’ite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish regions, he says this time the survival of the country is at stake.
Pushing locals aside, Russians take top rebel posts in east Ukraine
KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – As Ukrainian troops gained ground in eastern Ukraine in early July, separatist leader, Aleksander Borodai, a Russian national, left for Moscow for political consultations.
Agreement reached with Ukraine separatists on access to crash site: Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – An agreement has been reached with separatists in Ukraine to enable international police to oversee a site where a Malaysian plane was downed and investigators to determine why the aircraft crashed, Malaysia’s prime minister sa…
China’s anti-graft drive is making state media bolder
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s campaign to stamp out corruption has emboldened the country’s normally docile state media to push the barriers in exposing corporate wrongdoing.
