Ten killed in stampede at Mozambique election rally
At least 10 people have died and 98 were injured in a stampede at a campaign rally of Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi, health authorities said on Thursday.
New sanctions could extend to allies of Hezbollah in Lebanon: U.S. envoy
Future U.S. sanctions could target allies of Hezbollah in Lebanon, extending beyond direct affiliates of the Iran-backed Shi’ite Muslim group, a U.S. envoy said on Thursday.
Netanyahu says Israel won’t tolerate Iran’s ‘aggression’ from Syria: Interfax
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday that Israel will not put up with threats from Iran, which, in his words, was using Syrian territory for aggression, Interfax news agency reported.
Saudi Prince Abdulaziz: oil hawk with soft diplomacy touch
OPEC is notorious for arguing over production policies – but Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman has effectively managed to deliver his first output cut just four days after becoming the new Saudi energy minister.
Protesters vow to go ahead with Heathrow disruption despite arrests
Climate-change activists have vowed to go ahead with plans to disrupt Heathrow with drones on Friday morning, despite the arrest of five of their members in a pre-emptive strike by London police.
Four dead, 13 injured in Turkey’s southeast after blast: governor office
Four people were killed and 13 were badly wounded in southeast Turkey after improvised explosives placed on a road detonated as a vehicle carrying villagers was passing, the Diyarbakir governor’s office said on Thursday.
Twitter blocks accounts of Raul Castro and Cuban state-run media
U.S. social media company Twitter Inc has blocked the accounts of Cuban Communist Party Leader Raul Castro, his daughter Mariela Castro and Cuba’s top state-run media outlets, a move the Cuban Union of Journalists denounced as “massive censorship”.
Four dead, seven injured in Turkey’s southeast after blast: hospital source
Four people died and seven people were injured in southeast Turkey after explosives installed on the road detonated during the passage of a vehicle, a local hospital source said on Thursday.
Top Turkish court orders release of jailed Cumhuriyet journalists
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals ordered on Thursday the release of six former employees of the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper who were jailed on terrorism-related charges, two of the newspaper’s lawyers said.
Mexico pushes back after top U.S. court favors Trump on shunning migrants
The Mexican government protested and Central American migrants feared deportation back to their violent homelands on Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to slam the door on asylum-seekers at the U.S.-Mexican border.
