China’s capital to replace some coal-fired heating plants
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will replace four coal-burning heating plants in the capital Beijing with natural gas fired ones by the end of next year as it steps up efforts to clean up pollution, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
Libyan checkpoint ambush kills at least 12 soldiers
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Gunmen killed at least 12 Libyan soldiers in an attack on a checkpoint near the city of Bani Walid, a former stronghold of supporters of Muammar Gaddafi, security officials said on Saturday.
Polish journalist abducted in Syria in July is alive: minister
WARSAW (Reuters) – A Polish journalist who was taken hostage by Islamist militants in northwest Syria in July is alive, Poland’s foreign minister said on Saturday.
Hundreds of Sudanese protest, but numbers down after crackdown
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Several hundred Sudanese protested in Khartoum on Friday to demand the resignation of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, but crowds were much smaller than last week, when protests provoked a bloody security crackdown.
Bus plunges down hillside outside Mexico City, killing 14
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – At least 14 people died on Friday when a bus hurtled down a hillside on the outskirts of Mexico City, ejecting six victims through the windows and leaving 25 injured, police said.
Syria submits further details of its chemical arms program
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Syria has given international experts additional details about its chemical weapons program that go beyond a September 21 declaration of its poison gas arsenal, the United Nations said on Friday.
Mexico captures man wanted in killing of Guatemalan police
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Mexican police arrested on Friday a suspected Guatemalan drug trafficker accused of leading the June slaughter of eight police officers in Guatemala’s western highlands, authorities said.
Assad says Turkey will pay for backing Syrian rebels
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has told Turkey it will pay a heavy price for backing rebels fighting to oust him, accusing it of harboring “terrorists” along its border who, he said, would soon turn on their hosts.
At least four killed in Egypt as Islamists mount bold protests
CAIRO (Reuters) – At least four people died in clashes on Friday as supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi mounted their boldest marches since troops crushed their protest camps demanding his reinstatement on August 14.
Search for victims of Sicily migrant wreck postponed
LAMPEDUSA, Italy (Reuters) – Choppy seas prevented divers on Friday from recovering more bodies of migrants who died in a shipwreck off Sicily that has killed an estimated 300, in one of the worst disasters of Europe’s immigration crisis.
