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.
Karzai to advise delaying U.S.-Afghan pact in closing speech: spokesman
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai will call for a security pact with the United States to be delayed until after an April election when he gives a closing speech to a grand assembly that will decide on the deal, his spokesman said on Satu…
Pakistan militants kidnap 11 teachers in polio vaccination campaign
KABUL (Reuters) – Militants kidnapped 11 Pakistani teachers involved in a polio vaccination campaign for school children on Saturday, officials said, the latest in a string of attacks on health workers trying to eradicate the deadly disease.
Family of U.S. man detained in North Korea appeals for his release
(Reuters) – The California family of a Korean War veteran held in North Korean custody since last month appealed to the Pyongyang government on Friday for his safe return, calling his detention during a sightseeing trip a “dreadful misunderstanding.”
U.S. concerned about Nicaragua plan to end presidential term limits
MANAGUA (Reuters) – The United States on Friday criticized a proposal by Nicaragua’s ruling party to remove presidential term limits, which could allow Washington’s former Cold War adversary Daniel Ortega to stay in power indefinitely.
Indonesia, Australia spy claim tension spreads to corporate world
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Rising diplomatic tension between Australia and Indonesia spread into the corporate world on Friday when a state-owned Indonesian firm suspended talks with Australian cattle farmers, citing trust issues between the neighbors.
Death toll jumps over 50 in Latvian supermarket collapse
RIGA (Reuters) – Rescue workers pulled bodies from the ruins of a collapsed supermarket in the Latvian capital Riga on Friday as the death toll rose to 51 in the Baltic state’s worst disaster in decades.
World Bank raises Philippine typhoon aid package to almost $1 billion
MANILA (Reuters) – The World Bank said it raised to almost $1 billion its financial aid package to support relief and reconstruction in typhoon-devastated areas in the central Philippines, as the toll of death and destruction kept rising more than two …
