Gunmen kill 21 Egyptian military border guards near Libya
CAIRO (Reuters) – Gunmen killed 21 Egyptian military border guards near the frontier with Libya on Saturday, highlighting a growing threat from an area that security officials say has become a haven for militants seeking to topple the Cairo government….
Wave of bombings in Baghdad kills 27 people: police, medics
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – At least 27 people were killed in a wave of bombings in mostly Shi’ite Muslim areas of Baghdad on Saturday, police and medics said, in the deadliest day of attacks in the capital since a Sunni insurgency overran large parts of Iraq’…
Iran warned of ‘last chance’ in nuclear talks after deadline missed
VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran faced Western pressure on Saturday to make concessions over its atomic activities after it and six world powers failed to meet a July 20 deadline for a deal to end the decade-old dispute but agreed to keep talking.
Central America leaders to ask Obama for plan to stem child exodus
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Central American leaders will ask U.S. President Barack Obama to support a regional development and security plan to stem the tide of illegal child migrants to the United States at a meeting next week, a Honduran minister said o…
Super typhoon kills fourteen in southern China: Xinhua
BEIJING (Reuters) – A super typhoon has killed at least fourteen people in China since making landfall on Friday afternoon, state media said on Saturday, after hitting parts of the Philippines and leaving 77 dead.
Exhumation of bodies of alleged Indian rape victims halted by rain
LUCKNOW (Reuters) – Indian federal investigators on Saturday suspended the exhumation of the bodies of two teenage girls, who were allegedly raped and found hanging by their necks from a tree in May, as heavy rainfall inundated the burial area.
After clashes, rush after some Tripoli flights resume
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Flights have resumed from two small airports in Libya triggering a rush of Libyans and expatriates trying to leave the country on Saturday after fighting closed the main international airport a week earlier.
Iraq president Talabani returns after long absence
ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) – President Jalal Talabani returned to Iraq on Saturday for the first time since he suffered a stroke a year and a half ago and was flown abroad for medical treatment, state television said.
Spanish police arrest suspected Colombian crime lord
MADRID (Reuters) – Police in the Spanish region of Alicante said on Saturday they had arrested a 40-year-old man who they identified as the head of the military wing of a violent Colombian drug cartel and one of Colombia’s most wanted criminals.
Man triggers security alert in Geneva by stopping tram
GENEVA (Reuters) – A man who set off a security alert in Geneva on Saturday when he stopped a tram to retrieve bags that included a book with a radical Islamist image in it appears to have been drunk, police said.
