Suicide bomber kills eight Kurdish security forces personnel in Iraq
TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) – A suicide bomber driving a car packed with explosives blew himself up near a Kurdish security forces patrol killing at least eight of them early on Sunday, police said.
Germany’s Schaeuble set to stay center stage in euro crisis
BERLIN (Reuters) – Two years ago, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble was on the point of giving up his role as iron fist in the euro zone debt crisis, but the 70-year-old champion of closer European integration now seems likely to remain on Eur…
Insight: The poison pill in India’s search for cheap food
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Nearly a decade ago, the Indian government ruled out a ban on the production and use of monocrotophos, the highly toxic pesticide that killed 23 children this month in a village school providing free lunches under a governm…
Business booms for asylum middlemen in Afghan exodus
KABUL (Reuters) – In a brightly lit travel agency in a gloomy Kabul mall, business is booming for Naser Gulzad. But all he can think about is shutting up shop and following his customers out of Afghanistan.
Mali scrambles to be ready for Sunday’s ‘fresh start’ vote
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Malian election officials scrambled to distribute voting material for an election on Sunday intended to provide a fresh start to a country divided by a coup and a war in its desert north.
Canadian, jailed in Mauritania for terror link, reported back home
OTTAWA/NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) – A Canadian man jailed for “terrorist conspiracy” in the west African nation of Mauritania arrived back in Canada under police escort on Friday after his sentence was cut on appeal, Canadian television said.
Pope urges Brazil’s youth to seek change, fight apathy
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Saturday encouraged Brazil’s young people, who have protested against corruption in their country, to continue their efforts to change society by fighting apathy and offering “a Christian response.”
Al Shabaab claim attack on Turkish mission in Somalia, three dead
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A car loaded with explosives rammed into an office housing Turkish embassy staff in the Somali capital, killing three people, witnesses and officials said on Saturday, the latest in a series of blasts claimed by Islamist al Shabaa…
Tunisia leaders aim for new power-sharing deal ‘in coming hours’
TUNIS (Reuters) – Coalition partners of Tunisia’s ruling Islamist party said on Saturday they were in talks to reach a new power-sharing deal, in a bid to stave off unrest as protests intensified late into the night.
Police fire teargas at violent protests in Sidi Bouzid
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian police fired teargas late on Saturday to disperse violent protests in the southern town of Sidi Bouzid, cradle of the country’s revolution and hometown of slain opposition figure Mohamed Brahmi, witnesses said.
