Bombs kill nine and wound 54 in northern Iraq
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A car bomb and a suicide bomber killed at least nine people and wounded 54 in northern Iraq on Saturday, police and medical sources said, in the latest of a wave of attacks in crowded public places.
Angolan police kill opposition member, detain 292 protesters
LUANDA (Reuters) – Angolan security forces shot and killed an opposition activist on Saturday, hours ahead of protests across the country where police detained 292 people.
Insight: China’s Xi fails to earn stripes as anti-graft ‘tiger’ hunt underwhelms
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping has raised expectations he will tackle corruption much more forcefully than his predecessors, but official data on investigations suggests the crackdown so far is little different to previous years.
Insight: Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s master builder
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has rattled the United States with his nuclear threats and bemused the world with his penchant for funfairs, Disney and Dennis Rodman.
Islamist group calls Tiananmen attack ‘jihadi operation’: SITE
DUBAI (Reuters) – An Islamist militant group calling itself the Turkestan Islamic Party said a deadly car crash in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on October 28 was a “jihadi operation” by holy warriors, the SITE monitoring service said.
Latvian president calls store collapse that killed 54 ‘murder’
RIGA (Reuters) – Rescue workers late on Saturday stopped searching the rubble of a supermarket collapse that killed at least 54 people in a disaster that Latvia’s president called “murder”.
Berlusconi says president should pardon him, slams ‘coup d’etat’
ROME (Reuters) – Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi called on Saturday for a presidential pardon following his conviction for tax fraud and said his expulsion from parliament in a vote next week would be a “coup d’etat”.
Gunmen kill 12 in Nigerian Islamist stronghold
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Gunmen killed 12 people in a raid on a northeastern Nigerian village on Saturday, the police said, in a region where troops are battling an Islamist militant insurgency.
Egypt expels Turkish ambassador, Turkey retaliates
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt said on Saturday it was expelling Turkey’s ambassador and accused Ankara of backing organizations bent on undermining the country – an apparent reference to the Muslim Brotherhood of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi.
Women enslaved in London joined a ‘collective’ with captors: police
LONDON (Reuters) – Three women enslaved in London for 30 years lived in some kind of “collective” where they were controlled by their captors – a couple now in their 60s – through brainwashing and beatings, police said on Saturday.
