Dispute on immunity for U.S. troops blocks Afghan-U.S. security pact
KABUL (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Afghan President Hamid Karzai ended two days of talks on a bilateral security pact on Saturday without a deal because they could not agree on the issue of legal immunity for U.S. troops.
Fierce cyclone rips into India; 550,000 flee to shelters
ICHAPURAM/BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) – A fierce cyclone tore into India’s coast, killing at least five people, forcing half a million into shelters and threatening to devastate farmland and fishing hamlets.
Chilean President Pinera endorses struggling right-wing candidate
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chilean President Sebastian Pinera explicitly endorsed his weakened right-wing coalition’s candidate a month before a presidential election that polls show will likely mark the return of the center-left.
AU calls for halt to ICC cases against Kenyan and Sudanese leaders
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – African leaders called on Saturday for the prosecutions of Kenya’s and Sudan’s presidents by the International Criminal Court to be halted, amid complaints the body has only ever pursued Africans.
Most Greeks support crackdown on far-right Golden Dawn: poll
ATHENS (Reuters) – Most Greeks believe that criminal charges filed against the leader and top officials of Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party are fair and more than half are happy with the government’s handling of the case, a poll found on Saturday.
Latest migrant deaths fuel calls for EU action
ROME (Reuters) – Italy and Malta pressed European partners on Saturday to do more to stop a migrant crisis which the Maltese prime minister said was turning the Mediterranean into a “cemetery” after another boat sank off Sicily, killing dozens more peo…
Car bomb explodes in Iraqi city of Samarra, killing 14
SAMARRA, Iraq (Reuters) – A car bomb exploded in a street lined with shops in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Saturday, killing at least 14 people, police and medics said.
Truck plunges off road in Peruvian Andes, killing 50 people: media
LIMA (Reuters) – A truck plunged 300 meters (980 feet) down a ravine in the Peruvian Andes, killing at least 50 people aboard, local media reported on Saturday.
At least 20 dead and many more missing in Mali boat accident
BAMAKO (Reuters) – At least 20 people were killed and as many as 170 were uncounted for after a boat overloaded with passengers and goods capsized on the Niger River in Mali, local residents and officials said on Saturday.
Azeri police beat, detain demonstrators after vote protest rally
BAKU (Reuters) – Police beat and detained demonstrators in the capital of Azerbaijan on Saturday after a protest against a disputed presidential vote that gave President Ilham Aliyev a third consecutive term in the oil-producing former Soviet republic….
