Bombs kill 23 in Baghdad
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Seven bombs exploded across Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 23 people and wounding scores, police and medical sources said, part of the worst wave of violence to hit Iraq in at least five years.
Survivors of migrant shipwreck walk away from Rome center
ROME (Reuters) – More than half of the survivors of a shipwreck near the Italian island of Lampedusa last month which killed more than 360 migrants have disappeared from the center in Rome where they had been living, city officials said on Wednesday.
Nigeria extends emergency rule in violence-hit states
ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s house of representatives on Wednesday approved a six month extension of a state of emergency in three northeastern states where the military is battling Islamist militants.
Bosnian court trims sentence for U.S. embassy gunman to 15 years
SARAJEVO (Reuters) – A Bosnian appeals court on Wednesday trimmed the prison sentence given to an Islamist gunman after he apologized for opening fire on the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo in 2011, seriously wounding a police officer.
Suicide attack stems Assad advance near Syria-Lebanon border
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Two suicide bombers from al Qaeda-linked groups blew themselves up at an army post in the Syrian town of al-Nabak on Wednesday, halting an advance by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces near the Syrian-Lebanese border, activists said….
Saudi Arabia condemns deadly Beirut blast as cowardly
DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia condemned a suicide attack that killed 23 people in Beirut, including an Iranian cultural attache, on Tuesday as “cowardly terrorist bombings”, the official SPA news agency said on Wednesday.
Afghan officials in Pakistan for Taliban peace talks: sources
ISLAMABAD/KABUL (Reuters) – Senior Afghan officials arrived in Pakistan to initiate peace talks with the Afghan Taliban following a breakthrough in negotiations during last month’s summit in Britain, officials from both countries said on Wednesday.
Sardinia unites in grief to bury victims of Italy cyclone
TEMPIO PAUSANIA, Italy (Reuters) – The victims of a cyclone that tore through the Italian island of Sardinia were buried on Wednesday as grieving family and friends demanded an explanation for the devastation inflicted on their communities.
In Qatar desert, Syrian opposition mourns fallen commander
UMM AL-AMAD, Qatar (Reuters) – On a patch of desert far from Syria, dozens of men gathered under a white tent to commemorate Abdelqader Saleh, a renowned Syrian rebel commander who died this week from wounds after an air strike in Aleppo.
China hospital ship to set sail for Philippine typhoon zone
HONG KONG (Reuters) – China is sending a state-of-the-art hospital ship to the Philippines following foreign and domestic criticism that it was slow and less than generous in its response to one of the world’s biggest typhoons, which killed at least 4,…
