French shooting suspect placed under investigation
PARIS (Reuters) – A Frenchman suspected of shooting a man at a newspaper office and firing into the lobby of a bank has been placed under preliminary investigation for attempted murder, a prosecutor said on Friday.
33 mutilated corpses found in hidden graves in Mexico drug lands
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – At least 33 mutilated corpses have been found buried in an area of western Mexico where drug cartels are battling each other, officials said on Friday, the latest in a series of grisly finds amid a scourge of gang-related violen…
North Korea confirms detention of U.S. citizen: State Department
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea has confirmed through Swedish officials in Pyongyang that it has detained a U.S. citizen, a State Department official said on Friday, after reports that an 85-year-old California man was pulled off a plane as he was a…
Bombings, shootings kill at least 23 across Iraq
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – At least 23 people were killed in bombings and shootings in Iraq on Friday, police and medical sources said, the latest in the worst wave of sectarian attacks to sweep the country in five years.
Mexican cartel kingpin’s son nabbed on drug charges in Arizona
PHOENIX (Reuters) – A son of Mexican drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada has been arrested in Arizona on cocaine and methamphetamine trafficking charges, authorities said on Friday.
Five plead guilty after cocaine ship is seized in Ghana waters
ACCRA (Reuters) – Four citizens of Guyana and one Ghanaian pleaded guilty on Friday to charges related to the seizure of a ship carrying tens of millions of dollars’ worth of cocaine, a senior legal official said.
Merkel hopeful ‘grand coalition’ deal will be done next week
MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday she expected a difficult final few days of coalition negotiations but was hopeful that her conservatives and the Social Democrats would reach agreement on a new government next …
RA Yemeni MP killed, shots fired at U.N. envoy’s convoy-security sources
SANAA (Reuters) – Attackers on a motorbike shot dead a Yemeni parliament member in Sanaa and a gunman opened fire on a convoy carrying the United Nations’ envoy to Yemen without causing any injuries or damage, in two separate incidents on Friday, secur…
Insight: Old assumptions questioned in Arafat’s mysterious death
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – President Yasser Arafat’s spartan bedroom remains largely as he left it in 2004, when he flew off to France for treatment for a mystery illness only to return home two weeks later in a coffin.
Syria Islamists unite as faction-fighting goes on
AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamist fighters in Syria have joined forces to form what may be the biggest rebel army in the country, further undermining Western-backed military commanders and potentially challenging al Qaeda.
