Key Bangladesh garments factory destroyed in blaze
DHAKA (Reuters) – A devastating fire ripped through a Bangladesh garment factory supplying major Western retailers in a blaze set by workers angered over rumors of a colleague’s death due to police gunfire.
Suicide bomber wounds MP and bodyguards in Afghan capital
KABUL (Reuters) – A suicide bomber wounded a prominent anti-Taliban Afghan legislator and his bodyguards in an attack in Kabul on Friday, intelligence officials said.
Liberals to lead Luxembourg as coalition talks succeed
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Luxembourg City’s mayor Xavier Bettel will become the country’s next prime minister, following the end of coalition talks on Friday that usher in a Liberal government for the first time in decades.
‘Security’ swimming pool lands South Africa’s Zuma in hot water
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s top anti-corruption watchdog says President Jacob Zuma should repay some of a $21 million publicly funded “security upgrade” to his private home that included a swimming pool and cattle enclosure, a newspaper sai…
Iraqi police find 18 men shot in head and seven decapitated
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Police discovered the bodies of 18 men who had been abducted and shot in the head near Baghdad on Friday, and the decapitated corpses of seven men killed in a separate attack in northern Iraq.
Thailand’s red-shirt heartland hides its strength
HUA KHUA, Thailand (Reuters) – Squatting on flat feet, their faces drawn with exhaustion from harvesting rice, Chantee Sanwang and Nang Laor still had the energy to tussle over who loathes Thailand’s anti-government protesters more.
Analysis: Ukraine fiasco raises doubts about EU neighborhood policy
PARIS (Reuters) – The European Union’s failure to conclude a landmark agreement with Ukraine this week raises questions about a policy designed to surround the bloc with a “ring of friends” that has done little so far to stabilize its neighborhood.
Italy PM Letta to call new confidence vote
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta said on Friday he would call a new confidence vote in parliament to confirm his government’s majority after the withdrawal of Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party from the ruling coalition.
Ukraine holds key to Putin’s dream of a new union
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Ukraine’s refusal to sign a trade pact drawing it into Europe’s orbit marked a victory for Vladimir Putin, winning him time to lure Kiev into a project for a trade and political bloc stretching from the frontiers of China to the edge…
Protesting schoolchildren face expulsion in Bosnian language row
SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Several hundred children from the Serb-controlled part of Bosnia faced expulsion from school on Friday after camping out in Sarajevo for three months in protest at being denied lessons in their native Bosnian language.
