Venezuela government accuses opposition leader of ‘coup’ plot
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan officials on Wednesday accused hardline opposition leader Maria Corina Machado of leading plots to topple President Nicolas Maduro in league with U.S. officials.
Israeli soldier suspended after fatal West Bank shootings: reports
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel has suspended a soldier in the fatal shootings of two Palestinian teenagers at a protest held on May 15 in the occupied West Bank, Israeli media reported on Wednesday.
Turkey’s Erdogan says foes may leak video in bid to smear him
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday followers of an Islamic cleric with whom he’s locked in a power struggle might leak a video about him and his family to smear him before an August presidential election.
U.S. investigates reports of American suicide bomber in Syria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. government agencies were examining social media postings purporting to show how an American who was fighting with an Al Qaeda affiliate blew himself up recently in a suicide attack in northern Syria, U.S. officials said.
Several killed in attack on church in capital of Central African Republic
BANGUI (Reuters) – Several people were killed in a attack on a church in capital of Central African Republic on Wednesday, residents and a Reuters witness said, after attackers hurled grenades into a courtyard where displaced people were sheltering.
Libyan warplanes strike Islamist militias in Benghazi
BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) – Libyan warplanes bombed militia bases in Benghazi on Wednesday as part of a renegade former general’s campaign to purge the chaotic North African state of Islamist militants, witnesses and officials said.
South Africa mines minister vows to break strike deadlock
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Deadlock in South Africa’s crippling 18-week platinum strike will soon be broken after movement made on both sides of the wage dispute, the country’s new mines minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi declared on Wednesday.
French court backs extradition of ex-policeman to Argentina over ‘dirty war’
PARIS (Reuters) – A Paris appeals court ruled on Wednesday in favor of extraditing a French-Argentine dual citizen wanted by Argentina for crimes against humanity during its 1976-1983 military dictatorship.
EU’s Balkan citizens take anti-immigrant vote in their stride
BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Britons have a right to worry if Romanians move in next door, or so says the man who triumphed in European Parliament elections. But despite such hostility, Romanians themselves still cherish the European Union as their best chanc…
Turkish mine disaster highlights gaps in safety regulation
SOMA/ISTANBUL/LONDON (Reuters) – Taner Yildirim was never surprised when safety inspectors turned up at the Soma mine in eastern Turkey, where 301 miners were killed this month just weeks after inspectors gave it a clean bill of health. He said he alwa…
