Passenger train, bus collide in Canada’s capital, six dead
OTTAWA (Reuters) – A passenger train and a double-decker city bus collided on the outskirts of Ottawa on Wednesday, killing six people on the bus and injuring 30 others, emergency officials said.
Blackout hits large parts of Yemen after attack on power lines
SANAA (Reuters) – Large parts of Yemen, including the capital Sanaa, have been left without electricity after Yemeni tribesmen attacked power lines on Thursday, a Yemeni official said.
Diplomatic tension over Hong Kong exposes fragility of hopes for democracy
HONG KONG (Reuters) – From China warning Western nations to stop meddling in Hong Kong to Communist Party-backed newspapers describing “plots” by foreign spies to seize the city, a growing row over electoral reform has exposed the fragility of hopes fo…
Freed Iranian lawyer Sotoudeh expects government to release others
DUBAI (Reuters) – Newly-released Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh said on Thursday she expected President Hassan Rouhani’s government to free hundreds of other people jailed for their political beliefs to show it is serious about reform.
Insight: Iraqis hesitate on the edge of chaos
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – In Sadr City, an impoverished district of northeastern Baghdad, local people say the anger of Shi’ite Muslims against Sunni militants is ready to erupt into violence.
Italy PM Letta rejects Berlusconi attack on judges
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta on Thursday dismissed Silvio Berlusconi’s attacks on judges who convicted him of tax fraud and said he would not allow his fragile coalition government to become the “punching ball” of his fractious …
EU police officer shot dead in Kosovo, testing fragile accord
PRISTINA (Reuters) – Gunmen shot dead a European Union police officer in a mainly Serb region of Kosovo on Thursday, dealing the mission its first fatality since deploying in 2008 and shaking a fragile accord between the Balkan country and its former m…
Greeks mourn anti-racism rapper stabbed to death
ATHENS (Reuters) – In a tense atmosphere in an Athens cemetery, more than 2,000 mourners bid farewell on Thursday to an anti-racism rapper who was stabbed to death by a man sympathizing with the far-right Golden Dawn party.
Bulgaria Socialist-led government faces no-confidence vote
SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria’s opposition GERB party on Thursday called a vote of no-confidence against the Socialist-led government in a move which is unlikely to topple it but will deepen political uncertainty in the European Union’s poorest country.
Senator McCain attacks Putin in Russian website op-ed
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Senator John McCain on Thursday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of allying himself with tyrants and ruling through violence and repression, in a scathing retort to a New York Times editorial by Putin earlier this month.
