Moroccan unemployed graduates protest over budget cuts
RABAT (Reuters) – Thousands of unemployed graduates marched through Morocco’s capital Rabat on Sunday demanding jobs in the public sector, weeks before parliament is due to debate planned budget cuts.
Mexico monster truck accident kills eight, including kids, injures 79
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – At least eight people, including three children, were killed and 79 were wounded when a monster truck careened into a crowd at a show in northern Mexico, an official at the public prosecutor’s office in the city of Chihuahua sai…
Israel indicts suspected Iranian spy
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel on Sunday indicted a Belgian-Iranian man on charges of spying for Iran, saying he had been sent to the Jewish state to set up a business as a front for intelligence gathering.
Fourteen killed in clashes in Central African Republic
BANGUI (Reuters) – Fourteen people have been killed in violent clashes between Christians and Muslims in an isolated town in eastern Central African Republic that began last week, police and a senior Catholic official said on Sunday.
Last-minute drama as Afghan presidential front-runners sign up
KABUL (Reuters) – Three men considered front runners in Afghanistan’s presidential election staged dramatic last-minute nominations on Sunday, the start of what is expected to be a chaotic but critical race for the palace in the first democratic transf…
Britain’s Cameron faces party battle over EU referendum
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron’s control over his own party looks set to be challenged after a rebel lawmaker on Sunday launched a campaign to bring forward a planned referendum on European Union membership to next year.
Iran calls for new offer from world powers before talks
DUBAI (Reuters) – World powers negotiating with Tehran over its disputed nuclear program must come up with new proposals before talks in Geneva on October 15-16, Iran’s foreign minister said.
Japanese author, Pakistani teenage activist tipped for Nobels
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – A Pakistani teenage activist shot by the Taliban and a Japanese author who writes about alienation and a fractured modern world are tipped as Nobel Prize winners ahead of the annual awards that start on Monday.
Orthodox Christians mark 1,700th anniversary of edict of tolerance
NIS, Serbia (Reuters) – Eight Orthodox Christian leaders, dignitaries from other faiths, politicians and thousands of others on Sunday celebrated the anniversary of the Edict of Milan, which established toleration for Christianity in the Roman Empire 1…
Libya’s PM demands explanation for U.S. raid in Tripoli
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s Prime Minister Ali Zeidan on Sunday asked U.S. authorities to explain a military raid in Tripoli to capture a Libyan man wanted for bombing U.S. embassies in Africa 15 years ago, his office said.
