Suicide bombers target Iraq Shi’ites, killing 60
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Two suicide bombers targeted Shi’ite Muslims in Iraq on Saturday, killing 60 people on the eve of the anniversary of one of their imams’ deaths, police and medics said on Saturday.
Israeli child seriously wounded in West Bank settlement shooting
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A nine-year-old Israeli girl was shot and seriously wounded in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Saturday in what police said was a suspected Palestinian militant attack.
Assad says will not negotiate with armed rebels: magazine
BERLIN (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told a German magazine he would not negotiate with rebels until they laid down their arms, and said his most powerful ally Russia supported his government more than ever.
Venezuela vows crackdown on ‘currency tourists’
CARACAS (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro’s government plans to use fingerprint machines at airports to try to root out no-shows who buy tickets to scam travel-related currency controls without even flying, in the latest symptom of Venezuela’s econo…
Kenya says al Qaeda-trained Sudanese man helped lead mall attack
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s government said a Sudanese man trained by al Qaeda was among the leaders of a raid on a Nairobi shopping mall in which at least 67 people were killed, the worst attack in the country in 15 years.
Somali militants say Western forces raid base and kill fighter
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somali al Shabaab militants said on Saturday British and Turkish special forces had raided a coastal town overnight, killing a rebel fighter, but that a British officer had also been killed and others wounded.
Bahrain to try opposition leader for inciting terrorism
MANAMA (Reuters) – The deputy leader of Bahrain’s largest opposition party is to face trial on charges including inciting terrorism, the public prosecutor of the Gulf Arab kingdom said on Saturday.
Berlusconi to ask to serve sentence in community service: press
ROME (Reuters) – Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will ask to serve a tax fraud sentence in community service, rather than under house arrest, his lawyer told newswire AGI on Saturday.
Assassinations of Muslim clerics in Kenya ‘boosting al Shabaab’
MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) – The killings of popular Muslim clerics in Kenya’s port city of Mombasa is strengthening support for Somali militants who massacred at least 67 people in a Nairobi shopping mall two weeks ago, a prominent Islamist said on Satu…
Irish voters reject Prime Minister’s call to scrap Senate
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland voted to retain its upper house of parliament on Saturday, rejecting Prime Minister Enda Kenny’s call to scrap a chamber where the likes of William Butler Yeats once sat but the government saw as redundant.
