Syrian official says UBAF bank unlocking frozen funds for food
ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Syrian bank accounts frozen abroad are gradually being freed up for use to fund food purchases, the head of Syria’s General Foreign Trade Organisation (GFTO) told Reuters on Sunday, with France being the most committed to releasin…
NATO, EU secure polling stations in vote re-run central to Kosovo accord
MITROVICA, Kosovo (Reuters) – NATO soldiers and EU police secured polling stations in the flashpoint Kosovo town of Mitrovica on Sunday for a re-run election central to a Western-sponsored plan to end the country’s ethnic partition.
Firefighters douse North Sea cargo ship blaze
OSLO (Reuters) – Firefighters put out a blaze on a cargo ship loaded with military jet fuel early on Sunday, 13 hours after it broke out during stormy weather in the North Sea off Norway.
Kerry to visit Israel on Friday to discuss Iran deal: Netanyahu
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Israel on Friday to discuss a proposed deal between world powers and Iran on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.
China says Xinjiang police station attacked by axe, knife-wielding mob, 11 dead
BEIJING (Reuters) – Eleven people were killed and two injured in China’s troubled far-west region of Xinjiang when a group of people armed with axes and knifes attacked a police station on Saturday, state media reported on Sunday.
Twenty-eight die in Vietnam floods, nine missing
HANOI (Reuters) – Flooding in Vietnam has killed at least 28 people since Friday, with nine others missing and nearly 80,000 displaced, state media and government reports said, after a tropical depression dumped heavy rains across central regions of th…
Bachelet the front-runner as Chileans vote for new president
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – As Chileans head to voting booths on Sunday to pick who will lead the country for the next four years, the biggest question mark is whether former President Michelle Bachelet wins outright or needs to wait for a December runoff.
Honduran presidential candidate unhurt after helicopter crash
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduras’ ruling party presidential candidate, Juan Hernandez, escaped unhurt after the helicopter in which he was traveling crashed on Saturday, a spokesman for his National Party said.
Special Report: Indonesia’s graftbusters battle the establishment
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Inspector General of Police had just withstood eight hours of interrogation on the night of October 5, last year at the Jakarta headquarters of Indonesia’s anti-corruption agency when a commotion erupted outside.
Seven bodies found in hidden graves near Acapulco: reports
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The bodies of seven people were found buried in several hidden graves in a rural area near the Mexican resort city of Acapulco, local media reported on Saturday.
