Nigerian Islamists extend killing spree in northeast: police
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, May 21 – Suspected Nigerian Islamist militants killed 17 people in a remote northeastern village on Tuesday night, hours after a bomb killed 118 people in the central city of Jos, police said on Wednesday.
No sign yet of missing British sailors: U.S. Coast Guard
BOSTON (Reuters) – Planes and ships from the United States, Canada, and Britain have turned up no fresh signs of four British sailors missing in the Atlantic, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Wednesday, adding search efforts would continue.
Impatience growing over Venezuela’s attitude to crisis: Kerry
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Impatience with Venezuela’s government is growing over its “total failure” to demonstrate good faith in talks over resolving the crisis there, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday.
Iranians arrested for ‘Happy’ video freed: social media
DUBAI (Reuters) – Six Iranians arrested for appearing in a video singing along to an American pop song were released on Wednesday, one day after being detained for what police called their “obscene” behavior, one of them said in an online posting.
U.S. VP Biden visits divided Cyprus, urges a peace deal
NICOSIA (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden visited ethnically-split Cyprus on Wednesday to lend support to complex peace talks on an island which has the potential to play an important role in easing Europe’s reliance on Russian gas.
Russia calls U.N. vote on Syria ‘publicity stunt,’ vows to veto
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia dubbed as a “publicity stunt” a planned U.N. Security Council vote on Thursday on a resolution to refer Syria’s civil war to the International Criminal Court, warning that the move would be detrimental to attempts to b…
Search for British sailors to continue, no sightings yet: U.S. Coast Guard
BOSTON (Reuters) – International efforts to find four British sailors missing since Friday in the Atlantic have not yet yielded any sightings of life rafts or persons in the water, U.S. Coast Guard Captain Anthony Popeil said on Wednesday.
Sri Lanka blocks two more websites critical of government: rights group
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka blocked two more news websites critical of the government, media rights groups said on Wednesday, a move press groups see as intended to intimidate critics of President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s administration.
Magnitude 6.0 quake off India’s east coast, no damage reported
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 6.0 struck off India’s east coast on Wednesday and the tremors were felt in several cities.
Russia vows to retaliate against U.S. human rights sanctions
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia vowed on Wednesday to retaliate against what it called “unfounded” U.S. sanctions imposed a day earlier on 12 Russians for human rights abuses, including allegedly denying medical care to a whistleblowing lawyer who died in a …
