Kyrgyz crowd attacks Australian gold miner’s office
ALMATY (Reuters) – A crowd of about 200 people on Friday attacked the local office of Z-Explorer, an Australian company developing a gold field in southern Kyrgyzstan, in what appeared to be another violent conflict over the privatization of the countr…
South African union official at Lonmin mine shot dead
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A senior member of South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) was shot dead overnight in the restive platinum belt town of Marikana, a union spokesman said on Friday.
Ill and long isolated, Iranian opposition leaders scent freedom
DUBAI (Reuters) – Four months after President Hassan Rouhani’s election, Iran is reviewing the house arrest of two opposition leaders, but conservatives may fear the consequences of freeing men who remain heroes to many Iranians.
Fire reported at Copersucar warehouses in Santos: fire department
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Fire broke out at two Santos Port warehouses controlled by Copersucar, Brazil’s biggest trader of sugar and ethanol, early on Friday, said Francisco Milani of the Santos Fire Department.
Al Qaeda strikes fear into Iraq’s government-backed Sunni militia
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Ahmed froze as he opened the small white envelope left on his doorstep in the Iraqi town of Latifiya. Shaking, he looked around before reading the words scrawled on the envelope. Inside was a bullet.
Insight: Europe’s bold vision hits trouble
BRUSSELS/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Barely a year after European leaders set out an ambitious vision for the euro zone’s future, progress has all but stalled and pressure is building for what may amount to a ‘make or break’ moment for the union.
Ugandan, U.S. intelligence suggests Kampala attack imminent: police
KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda heightened its “terror” alert to maximum on Friday for the first time since bombings in 2010 that killed 79 people, given domestic and U.S. intelligence indications of a possibly imminent attack by Islamist militants, a polic…
As U.S. averts default, Japan and China brace for next dollar drama
HONG KONG/TOKYO (Reuters) – Deal or no deal, the U.S. Congress’ dance with default impressed policymakers and investors in China and Japan with just how vulnerable their own economic revival plans are to the next political tantrum on Capitol Hill.
South Africans demand vigilante justice after child murders
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Hundreds of South Africans burned tires outside a township police station on Friday and demanded the handover for vigilante justice of a fifth suspect arrested for the rape and murder of two toddlers, a crime that has shocked t…
Five Yemeni soldiers killed in suicide attack on military base
ADEN (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed at least five Yemeni soldiers on Friday in a suspected Islamist militant attack on a military base in the south of the country, a Yemeni military official said.
