Bomb blast in Ethiopian capital kills two: state radio
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – A bomb blast in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa killed two people on Sunday, state radio said.
U.N. voices concern over delay to Guinea election result
CONAKRY (Reuters) – The United Nations on Sunday called upon Guinea’s electoral commission to publish results of a September 28 election aimed at completing a transition to democracy, saying it was concerned over the delay.
France to increase troops in Central African Republic
BANGUI (Reuters) – France will boost its troop presence in the Central African Republic by the end of the year 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) – Rioters smashed shop windows, stormed a warehouse and clashed with police in a Moscow neighborhood on Sunday in the biggest outbreak of anti-migrant unrest in the Russian capital in three years.
France’s National Front victorious in local by-election
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s National Front (FN) won by a wide margin in a local by-election in southeast France on Sunday, the latest sign the anti-immigrant party is benefiting from discontent with ruling Socialists and mainstream opposition conservati…
Italy to step up patrols in hope of saving migrants from shipwreck
ROME (Reuters) – Italy is to step up naval and air patrols in the southern Mediterranean to try to prevent repeats of the shipwrecks which have drowned hundreds of African migrants in two separate disasters in little more than a week.
Gunmen abduct six Red Cross workers and local volunteer in Syria
BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) – Gunmen abducted six Red Cross aid 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.
Iran rejects West’s demand to ship out uranium stockpiles
DUBAI/VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran on Sunday rejected the West’s demand that it send sensitive nuclear material out of the country but signaled flexibility on other aspects of its atomic activities that worry world powers, ahead of renewed negotiations this…
Polish PM spared humiliation in Warsaw vote: exit poll
WARSAW, Oct 13 – Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was spared a humiliating set-back on Sunday when an exit poll showed a referendum to remove his close ally, the mayor of Warsaw, had failed to attract enough votes to be valid.
FARC guerrillas bomb railway of top Colombia coal miner Cerrejon
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s biggest coal producer, Cerrejon, said a bomb attack on its railway on Sunday partially derailed a train carrying coal to port and damaged the track, but exports would continue as normal using stocks held at its privately-o…
