Gunmen kidnap Czech woman doctor in Yemen
ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) – A Czech doctor was kidnapped by gunmen in Yemen’s capital Sanaa on Saturday, the third foreigner to be snatched this month, security sources said.
U.N. Security Council unanimously approves Syria aid access resolution
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council achieved rare unity to act on Syria’s civil war on Saturday when Russia and China supported adoption of a resolution to boost aid access in Syria that threatens to take “further steps” in the case of…
Italy’s Renzi sworn in as prime minister
ROME (Reuters) – Italian center-left leader Matteo Renzi took office on Saturday as his country’s youngest prime minister, facing pressure to show immediate results after he forced out his predecessor over the slow pace of economic reforms.
Italy’s Renzi sworn in as prime minister
ROME (Reuters) – Italian center-left leader Matteo Renzi took office on Saturday as his country’s youngest prime minister, facing pressure to show immediate results after he forced out his predecessor over the slow pace of economic reforms.
Protest against new airport for west of France turns violent
NANTES (Reuters) – Violence erupted when about 20,000 people demonstrated against an airport project near the city of Nantes on Saturday, leaving six riot police officers injured.
Police fire tear gas at Istanbul anti-government protest
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish riot police fired tear gas on Saturday to disperse thousands of demonstrators in central Istanbul protesting against what they see as authoritarian new laws from Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s government.
Central African Republic militia says will only disarm after Muslim rebels do
BANGUI (Reuters) – A powerful militia in Central African Republic said on Saturday it will only disarm once its main rivals, the mainly Muslim Seleka fighters, lay down their weapons, a deadlock that risks prolonging the crisis in the war-torn country….
Algeria’s Bouteflika to seek fourth term in April
ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the aging independence veteran and Washington ally who suffered a stroke last year, will run for re-election on April 17, his premier said on Saturday, a vote likely to hand him a fourth term…
Ukraine’s Tymoshenko out of jail, still divisive
KIEV (Reuters) – Yulia Tymoshenko, sprung from jail on Saturday as President Viktor Yanukovich’s grip on power crumbled, is a former gas magnate whose ringing rhetoric electrified thousands during Ukraine’s 2004-5 Orange Revolution and propelled her to…
Syrian Kurds take town from Islamists: watchdog
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A Kurdish group captured a town in Syria from Islamists on Saturday in a battle in which at least 28 fighters were killed, most of them Islamists, a monitoring group reported
