Tunisian diplomat kidnapped in Libyan capital: minister
TUNIS (Reuters) – Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped a Tunisian diplomat in Tripoli, Tunisia’s foreign minister said on Saturday, one of a string of diplomatic abductions in the Libyan capital this year.
Dutch right-winger losing party members over anti-Moroccan chant
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch right-wing populist Geert Wilders has been hit by a further prominent resignation from his party after leading an anti-Moroccan chant, deepening the crisis for his Party for Freedom (PVV) which had been leading in opinion po…
6.2 magnitude earthquake hits northern Chile, no damage reported
WASHINGTON/SANTIAGO (Reuters) – A 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck the northern coast of Chile on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
China spots new possible plane debris in southern Indian Ocean
KUALA LUMPUR/PERTH, Australia (Reuters) – China said on Saturday it had a new satellite image of what could be wreckage from a missing Malaysian airliner, as more planes and ships headed to join an international search operation scouring some of the re…
Turkey says Twitter ‘biased’, did nothing to stop ‘character assassinations’
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey said on Saturday that Twitter was “biased” and had been used for “systematic character assassinations” of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s government, a day after Ankara’s ban on the site prompted an international outcry.
Pope appoints former child victim to church group on sex abuse
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Saturday named a woman molested by a priest as a child to be part of a core group to help the Catholic Church fight the clerical sexual abuse of minors that has haunted it for over two decades
Egyptian judge cuts short mass Islamist trial over ‘disruptive’ lawyers: source
CAIRO (Reuters) – A mass trial of members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood began in Egypt on Saturday, but proceedings were abruptly cut short by the judge who said defense lawyers were being disruptive and “discussing politics”, a judicial source to…
Boat accident in Western Uganda kills at least 19: police
KAMPALA (Reuters) – At least 19 people were killed and dozens of others were missing on Saturday after a boat carrying mostly Congolese refugees capsized in a lake that runs along the border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, police said.
Rebels battle for Syria border post near Mediterranean
(Reuters) – Islamist fighters in Syria battled President Bashar al-Assad’s forces for control of a border crossing with Turkey close to the Mediterranean on Saturday, part of an offensive aimed at opening up a rebel link to the sea.
Yemeni tribesmen blow up Marib oil pipeline, stop crude flows
SANAA (Reuters) – Yemeni tribesmen bombed Yemen’s main crude export pipeline on Saturday, forcing oil flows to be stopped, industry sources told Reuters.
