France will increase troops in Central African Republic: Fabius
BANGUI (Reuters) – France will boost its troops presence in the Central African Republic by the year end under a forthcoming U.N. resolution to help prevent the country from spiraling out of control, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Sunday.
Rioting erupts in Moscow after killing blamed on migrant
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Demonstrators, some chanting racist slogans, vandalized a shopping center and scuffled with police in a Moscow neighborhood on Sunday after the killing of a young man that residents blamed on a migrant from the Caucasus.
Syrian rebels say shot warplane near border with Jordan
AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian rebels said they shot a government warplane on Sunday near the southern city of Deraa along the border with Jordan but the plane was able to make an emergency landing at a nearby military airport.
Islamist militants destroy Sufi shrine in eastern Syria: activists
AMMAN (Reuters) – A Sufi Muslim shrine was blown up in eastern Syria on Sunday, opposition activists said, blaming al Qaeda-affiliated militants who have joined in the increasingly sectarian civil war.
Gunmen abduct six Red Cross workers and local volunteer in Syria: ICRC
BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) – Gunmen abducted six Red Cross workers and a local volunteer of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent in northwest Syria on Sunday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said.
Rome vows to block funeral of convicted war criminal Priebke
ROME (Reuters) – Civil and church authorities have moved to prevent a funeral in Rome for Erich Priebke, a Nazi war criminal convicted of one of Italy’s worst wartime massacres, who died last week at the age of 100.
Tropical Storm Octave forms off Mexico’s Baja California coast: NHC
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Octave formed south of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula early Sunday morning.
At least 89 killed in stampede at Indian Hindu temple
BHOPAL, India (Reuters) – A stampede at a bridge leading to a remote Hindu temple in central India on Sunday killed at least 89 people and injured more than 100, police said.
U.S. citizen found dead in Egyptian prison
CAIRO (Reuters) – A U.S. citizen was found dead in an Egyptian prison on Sunday in an apparent suicide six weeks after he was arrested for breaking a curfew, security sources said.
India seizes armed ‘anti-piracy’ ship owned by U.S. security firm
CHENNAI, India (Reuters) – India has detained an armed ship operated by a U.S. maritime security company and the 35 people on board for failing to produce papers authorizing it to carry weapons and ammunition in Indian waters, the coast guard said on S…