Syrian opposition says willing to attend Geneva talks
AMMAN (Reuters) – The president of the opposition Syrian Coalition, Ahmad Jarba, said the group was ready to attend a proposed Geneva conference to end two and a half years of conflict in Syria if it aims to establish a transitional government with ful…
Burst of gunfire at Kenya mall day after attack kills 39
NAIROBI (Reuters) – A brief burst of gunfire was heard on Sunday at an upscale shopping mall in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi a day after it was stormed by gunmen, in an attack that has killed at least 39 people, a Reuters witness at the scene said.
Flamboyant Chinese ‘princeling’ jailed for life
BEIJING (Reuters) – The writing was perhaps already on the wall for Bo Xilai, the controversial former top official of China’s southwestern city of Chongqing, when he appeared at last year’s parliamentary meeting, alternately chastened and combative.
At least 65 killed in attack in Baghdad Shi’ite stronghold
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – At least 65 people were killed in a triple bombing that targeted a tent filled with mourners in Baghdad’s Shi’ite Muslim stronghold of Sadr City on Saturday, police and medical sources said.
Canada says two citizens killed in Kenya attack, including diplomat
TORONTO (Reuters) – At least two Canadians, including a diplomat, were among those killed when gunmen stormed a shopping mall in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Saturday.
Merkel eyes third term in first German vote since euro crisis
BERLIN (Reuters) – In the first German election since Europe’s debt crisis erupted four years ago, voters are likely to give Angela Merkel a third term on Sunday, but may force her into a coalition with her leftist rivals and catapult a new anti-euro p…
Guinea’s legislative election postponed to September 28: mediator
CONAKRY (Reuters) – Guinea’s long-delayed legislative election scheduled for Tuesday has been postponed by four days to September 28 following talks between the opposition and government on Saturday in Conakry, a U.N. mediator said.
Islamists claim gun attack on Nairobi mall, at least 39 dead
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Gunmen stormed a shopping mall in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Saturday, killing at least 39 people including close relatives of Kenya’s president and children, in an attack claimed by the Somali Islamist group al Shabaab.
Turkey will probably never join the EU: Ankara negotiator
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey will probably never join the European Union because of prejudicial attitudes by the bloc’s existing members, Ankara’s chief EU negotiator said, in what appeared to be the first high-level acknowledgment that its decades-long…
Australia’s tough-talking PM to tread diplomatic path in Indonesia
CANBERRA (Reuters) – Tony Abbott relishes a fight, but Australia’s new conservative prime minister needs to find a reserve of diplomacy before his first overseas trip to Indonesia, with time fast running out on his “stand or fall” election pledge to st…
