Angola navy says missing tanker located, crew faked pirate attack
LISBON (Reuters) – Angola’s navy said on Sunday the crew of an oil tanker that vanished off its coast on January 18 had turned off communications to fake an attack, seeking to calm energy sector fears that the vessel had been hijacked by pirates.
Bad weather forces Quebec police to halt search of blaze ruins
L’ISLE-VERTE, Quebec (Reuters) – High winds and driving snow forced Quebec police on Sunday to suspend their search for bodies in the ice-clad ruins of a seniors’ residence following a fire that authorities now believe killed 32 people.
Bad weather forces Quebec police to halt search of blaze ruins
L’ISLE-VERTE, Quebec (Reuters) – High winds and driving snow forced Quebec police on Sunday to suspend their search for bodies in the ice-clad ruins of a seniors’ residence following a fire that authorities now believe killed 32 people.
Protesting migrants sew mouths shut in Italy
ROME (Reuters) – Thirteen Moroccan migrants held in a reception center in Rome for more than two months have sewed their mouths shut in protest at the length of their detention, police and campaigners said on Sunday.
EU, Russia to swap recriminations over Ukraine
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union and Russian leaders will trade recriminations over Ukraine at a summit on Tuesday, as the former Soviet republic reels from violent unrest after spurning the EU’s embrace and lurching back towards Moscow.
Snowden says NSA engages in industrial espionage: TV
BERLIN (Reuters) – The U.S. National Security Agency is involved in industrial espionage and will grab any intelligence it can get its hands on regardless of its value to national security, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden told a German TV network….
Egypt, reneging on roadmap, to start elections with presidential vote
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt will hold a presidential vote before electing parliament, President Adly Mansour said on Sunday, reneging on a roadmap and increasing the likelihood that army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will be elected as head of state w…
Egyptian soldiers killed in Sinai as protest toll rises to 49
CAIRO (Reuters) – Gunmen killed three Egyptian soldiers in an attack on a bus in the Sinai Peninsula on Sunday, the military said, prompting a warning from the army that it would eliminate the Muslim Brotherhood, which it blames for much of Egypt’s pol…
Twenty-nine dead in clashes on anniversary of Egypt uprising
CAIRO (Reuters) – Twenty-nine people were killed during anti-government marches on Saturday while thousands rallied in support of the army-led authorities, underlining Egypt’s volatile political fissures three years after the fall of autocrat President…
Libya, Egypt in talks over Tripoli diplomat hostages
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s government was in talks on Sunday with Egypt to resolve a hostage crisis after gunmen kidnapped five Egyptian diplomats in Tripoli in retaliation for Egypt’s arrest of a top Libyan militia commander.
