Warding off hunger, Venezuelans find meals in garbage bins
Tony, a 36-year old security guard, rummages through the garbage bins of a wealthy district in Caracas on his days off work, scavenging for food as Venezuela’s economic meltdown has left even the employed struggling to find enough to eat.
Indian pilot freed by Pakistan to be taken for medical checks: Indian official
Pakistan handed over a captured combat pilot to India on Friday, and he was being taken for medical checks, an Indian defense official said.
Opposition Slovak presidential candidate soars in final poll
Zuzana Caputova, a lawyer and activist who has suddenly emerged as the front-runner in a presidential election in Slovakia, opened a seemingly insurmountable lead over the ruling party’s candidate in the final opinion poll two weeks before the vote.
Spain takes steps to cap home rents as election nears
The Spanish government on Friday adopted a decree that aims to cap residential rent rises within the term of a contract ahead of a general election in April.
Battle over in Somali capital, three militants killed: police
Somali security forces killed three militants holed up in a building in the capital Mogadishu on Friday and the battle for the area was now over, police officials said.
Spain says it will ease residency for Britons in case of no-deal Brexit
Spain said on Friday it would allow British citizens living in the country to stay on if Britain leaves the European Union without a deal, giving them until the end of 2020 to apply for permanent residency and making it automatic for many.
Irish PM says to fix law that prompted border trawler seizures
(This March 1 story corrects paragraph 2 to say trawlers seized by Irish Naval Service not Coast Guard)
Somali special forces battle militants holding hostages
Heavy gunfire rang out across central Mogadishu on Friday as Somali special forces battled to dislodge insurgents who bombed a hotel, killing at least 29 people, then holed up with hostages in a neighboring building.
Yazidis freed from Islamic State captivity in Syria, returned to Iraq
A group of Yazidi women and children returned to Iraq from Syria on Friday after more than four years in Islamic State captivity.
Iran’s Zarif derides Trump over North Korea summit failure
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif mocked U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday over the collapse of a summit on North Korean denuclearization, vowing Washington would not get a better Iran nuclear deal than the one it exited last year.
