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…
Israel finds tunnel dug under its Gaza border, blames Hamas
ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER (Reuters) – Israel displayed on Sunday what it called a Palestinian “terror tunnel” running into its territory from the Gaza Strip and said it was subsequently freezing the transfer of building material to the enclave.
German SPD tells Merkel no deal without minimum wage
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s opposition Social Democrats threw up a new potential obstacle to a ‘grand coalition’ government with Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday ahead of a new round of talks, saying they would insist on a national minimum wage.
