Use lesson of oppression to promote tolerance, Pope urges Lithuania
Pope Francis said at the start of a four-day trip to the Baltics on Saturday that Lithuania should see its painful past under Soviet and Nazi domination as an impetus to promote tolerance in Europe.
U.S. military says U.S. airstrike kills an estimated 18 Somali militants
U.S. forces acting in self defense called in an airstrike on al Shabaab militants in the southern Somalia province of Lower Juba, killing an estimated 18 Islamist extremists, U.S. Africa Command said on Saturday.
Russia throws doubt on joint lunar space station with U.S.: RIA
Moscow may abandon a project to build a space station in lunar orbit in partnership with U.S. space agency NASA because it does not want a “second fiddle role,” a Russian official said on Saturday.
Gunmen kill 25, including 12 Revolutionary Guards, in attack on Iran military parade
Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused U.S.-backed Gulf Arab states of carrying out an attack on a military parade that killed 25 people, almost half of them members of the country’s elite Revolutionary Guards.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards: custodians of clerical rule
Gunmen fired on a military parade in southwestern Iran on Saturday, killing 25 people, almost half of them members of the Revolutionary Guards, state media reported, in one of the worst attacks ever on the elite force.
German coalition’s future at stake as parties again try to resolve spymaster affair
The fate of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s unwieldy six-month-old government hangs in the balance this weekend as the three coalition parties seek again to resolve their dispute over Germany’s scandal-tainted spymaster.
Boat carrying Syrian refugees sinks off Lebanon, boy dies
A boat with 39 Syrian refugees aboard sank off the coast of Lebanon as it sailed illegally for Cyprus on Saturday and most were rescued by the Lebanese army but a five-year-old boy drowned, security sources said.
Survivor pulled from capsized Tanzanian ferry as death toll reaches 207
Divers on Saturday rescued a man from the wreck of an overcrowded Tanzanian ferry that capsized on Lake Victoria on Thursday, killing at least 207 people.
Iran’s Rouhani orders security forces to identify parade attackers: ISNA
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ordered the country’s security forces to identify those reponsible for an attack on Saturday on a military parade, the semi-official ISNA news agency said.
Vatican, China sign landmark accord on appointing bishops
(The Sept. 22 story was refiled to correct the age of Cardinal Zen to 86 from 76 in paragraph 10)
