Catalans want independence referendum in 2014: poll
MADRID (Reuters) – The majority of Catalans want the right to decide on independence in a referendum and believe Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy should authorize such a vote, a poll showed on Sunday.
Japanese diplomat stabbed in Yemen kidnap bid: source
SANAA (Reuters) – Armed men stabbed a Japanese diplomat in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Sunday when he resisted a kidnapping attempt near his house, a security source said.
Iran committed to continuing nuclear talks: foreign minister
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran will continue nuclear negotiations with world powers despite “unsuitable actions” which led to it halting technical talks in Vienna, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Sunday.
France says to seek European help in Central African Republic
PARIS (Reuters) – France will ask for more help from European partners to bolster its peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Sunday.
Death toll in Kenya bus attack rises to six
NAIROBI (Reuters) – The death toll in a grenade attack on a minibus near a Somali-dominated area in Kenya’s capital at the weekend has risen to six after two more of the wounded died, police said on Sunday.
Wary of Roma, Europe cold-shoulders its new eastern workmates
BERLIN/BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Mitko keeps a tidy squat, a tartan blanket on the bed and his clothes stowed away. Lit by candles, heated by a gas canister and padlocked when he is out, it is the 39-year-old Roma’s haven inside an old graffiti-covered ice…
Insight: Syria uses red tape, threats to control U.N. aid agencies
BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) – It is a 15-minute drive from the five-star hotel that houses U.N. aid staff in Damascus to rebel-held suburbs where freezing children are starving to death.
Controlled blasts by Afghan army shake Kabul: government
KABUL (Reuters) – Two huge explosions in Kabul’s west on Sunday shook the city, rattling windows as far away as the diplomatic zone, 12 kms (seven miles) from the blasts.
Eleven bodies found in southern Mexico
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Ten charred bodies were found in a burnt-out truck in Mexico’s southern Oaxaca state on Saturday, the state’s prosecutor’s office said.
North Korean leader’s influential aunt remains in power after uncle Jang’s execution
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s influential aunt Kim Kyong Hui remains a part of the regime’s inner circle, even after the execution of her husband last week, the second most powerful man in the isolated nation.
