Libyan election to go ahead next week despite political chaos
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s second national election since the 2011 ouster of strongman Muammar Gaddafi will go ahead next week despite growing political chaos, organizational troubles and the prospect of a low turnout.
At least 28 bodies found at a ranch in eastern Mexico
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican authorities said on Wednesday they had found the remains of at least 28 people in a mass grave at a ranch in the eastern state of Veracruz, which has been wracked by violence between feuding drug gangs.
Freed Bahraini activist urges government to seek reconciliation
GENEVA (Reuters) – One of the Arab world’s best-known human rights activists urged his native Bahrain on Wednesday to look beyond the Sunni-Shi’ite divide to end a political stand-off in the U.S.-allied kingdom.
Qatar ‘very assiduous’ in monitoring prisoners in Bergdahl swap: U.S. official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ambassador James Dobbins, the U.S. State Department’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, said on Wednesday that Qatar’s government had been closely keeping track of five Taliban prisoners exchanged for U.S. Serg…
Nigerian military arrest senior Boko Haram member: police
ONITSHA/DAMATURU Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigerian security forces discovered a senior member of the militant Islamist group Boko Haram among a convoy of nearly 500 travelers arrested this week in the southern state of Abia, a military spokesman said on Wed…
With Israeli teens missing, Palestinian unity frays
GAZA (Reuters) – The disappearance of three Jewish youths in the occupied West Bank has rocked reconciliation between Palestinian political factions and risks sinking a new unity government, analysts and officials have said.
Libya condemns U.S. arrest of Benghazi suspect
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya condemned the United States on Wednesday for snatching a man suspected of masterminding the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, describing the arrest as a violation of Libyan sovereignty.
Polish authorities search premises of weekly that revealed tape scandal
WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish authorities searched the premises of Wprost, the news magazine that published tapes of officials’ conversations that have embarrassed to the government, the prosecutor’s spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
Venezuela ex-planning minister said to slam Maduro as weak leader
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s former planning minister, who helped the late president Hugo Chavez forge the country’s state-driven economic model, has excoriated current president Nicholas Maduro as a weak leader who is straying from socialism, accor…
UKIP snags lone French defector to form EU political group
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Britain’s UK Independence Party succeeded on Wednesday in forming a European Parliament grouping with other euro-sceptic parties, giving it access to more money, staff and speaking time.
