Kerry to fly to London Sunday to meet British, Libyan officials
GENEVA (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will fly to London from Geneva on Sunday to meet British and Libyan officials, the U.S. State Department said.
Rich vs poor deadlock broken at U.N. climate talks
WARSAW (Reuters) – Almost 200 nations kept a plan to reach a new U.N. climate pact in 2015 alive on Saturday when rich and poor countries reached a compromise on sharing out the efforts needed to slow global warming.
Australian PM writes to Indonesian president over spy row
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Saturday he had written a letter to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono over a spying row that has knocked relations between the neighbors to their lowest point since the late 1…
Angolan police fire teargas to disperse opposition protest
LUANDA (Reuters) – Angolan police fired teargas and warning shots on Saturday to disperse hundreds of opposition supporters demonstrating in the capital against the disappearance and possible murder of two anti-government activists.
Islamist rebels capture Syria’s largest oilfield: activists
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamist rebels led by al Qaeda-linked fighters seized Syria’s largest oilfield on Saturday, cutting off President Bashar al-Assad’s access to almost all local crude reserves, activists said.
Nigeria to hold extra governorship vote after hitches
ONITSHA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigeria set November 30 for the rerun of parts of a state governorship election that were annulled because of suspicious actions by a polling official, in a test of the national electoral commission some 18 months before pr…
Lebanon identifies second Iran embassy bomber: source
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese authorities have identified the second suicide bomber who attacked the Iranian embassy in Beirut this week as a Palestinian man with ties to a fugitive Lebanese Islamist cleric, a security source said on Saturday.
Air strikes kill at least 40 in northern Syria: monitoring group
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Air strikes around the northern Syrian city of Aleppo killed at least 40 people on Saturday, most of them civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Angolan police fire teargas to disperse protest
LUANDA (Reuters) – Angolan police fired tear gas and warning shots on Saturday to disperse hundreds of opposition supporters demonstrating in the capital against the disappearance and possible murder of two anti-government activists.
Qingdao oil flow halted as explosion toll hits 47
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Crude pipelines have been shut-off in the eastern Chinese oil hub of Qingdao pending safety checks a day after a leak triggered a huge explosion that killed 47 people, a refinery official and state media said on Saturday.
