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Attack mounted on foreign convoy near compound in Kabul

KABUL (Reuters) – An attack involving a automotive bomb followed by using gunfire was once launched through Taliban warring parties on a convoy of automobiles near an international compound in eastern Kabul on Friday night, security sources stated. The Taliban claimed duty on Twitter and later despatched out a observation. […]

 
 

Plane crashes in Laos, 39 people killed: Thai TV

BANGKOK (Reuters) – An aircraft crashed into the Mekong river in Laos on Wednesday and 39 individuals had been killed, media reported. A Lao Airlines plane on an inner flight from the capital, Vientiane, to the south of the us of a, crashed into the Mekong within the late afternoon, […]

 
 

Iran hints it could consider wider nuclear inspections

Iran hints it could consider wider nuclear inspections

GENEVA (Reuters) – Iran steered it was once prepared to handle calls to present the U.N. atomic watchdog wider inspection powers as part of Tehran’s proposals to unravel a decade-outdated nuclear dispute with the West. The comments from Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi gave the look to be the […]

 
 

Death toll from Philippines quake at 144, more people missing

With the aid of Erik De Castro LOON, Philippines (Reuters) – The death toll from an earthquake in the Philippines rose to a hundred and forty four on Wednesday as rescuers dug in the course of the rubble of collapsed constructions together with an outdated church and a medical institution. […]

 
 

Americans win Nobel prize for work on predicting markets

Americans win Nobel prize for work on predicting markets

By way of Johan Ahlander and Alister Bull STOCKHOLM/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three American scientists received the 2013 economics Nobel prize on Monday for analysis that has superior the forecasting of long term asset prices, a sizzling matter for the reason that give way of the U.S. housing market bubble prompted […]

 
 

Iran hopeful Geneva talks can lead to ‘nuclear roadmap’

Iran hopeful Geneva talks can lead to ‘nuclear roadmap’

DUBAI (Reuters) – International Minister and chief negotiator Mohammad Javad Zarif voiced hope Iran and world powers can agree at talks this week on a roadmap in opposition to defusing the stand-off over Tehran's nuclear task, however warned the method can be advanced. The negotiations about Iran's nuclear application, to […]

 
 

Kerry says Syria peace conference should be held soon

Kerry says Syria peace conference should be held soon

LONDON (Reuters) – Secretary of State John Kerry called on Monday for a peace convention on Syria "very soon" however said peace would not be that you can think of with out a transition govt to switch President Bashar al-Assad. "We consider it’s urgent to set a day, to convene […]

 
 

U.S., Afghans agree most of pact, elders to make final decision

U.S., Afghans agree most of pact, elders to make final decision

By way of Lesley Wroughton and Jessica Donati KABUL (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Afghan President Hamid Karzai have reached preliminary settlement on a bilateral safety p.c. that now relies on the approval of Afghanistan’s tribal leaders. The percent, announced collectively through Kerry and Karzai late […]

 
 

Trail of destruction but few casualties after cyclone pounds India

Trail of destruction but few casualties after cyclone pounds India

Via Sruthi Gottipati and Jatindra Sprint GANJAM/BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) – Morning time printed a trail of destruction across coastal areas of japanese India on Sunday after the strongest storm to hit the country in 14 years, but the lack of lifestyles seemed restricted as greater than half one million individuals […]

 
 

Vietnam pays last respects to ‘Red Napoleon’, Vo Nguyen Giap

Vietnam pays last respects to ‘Red Napoleon’, Vo Nguyen Giap

Through Nguyen Phuong Linh HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnamese poured into the capital on Sunday to bid farewell to Vo Nguyen Giap, the final who masterminded historical defeats of France and the US to change into one of the vital twentieth century’s most important militia commanders. Crowds lined the streets of […]

 
 

Dozens dead in new migrant tragedy off coast of Sicily

Via Wladimir Pantaleone PALERMO, Sicily (Reuters) – Dozens of people including women and kids died on Friday when a ship carrying round 250 migrants capsized and spilled them into the sea between Sicily and Tunisia, the second such tragedy in just a little over a week, the Italian coastguard stated. […]

 
 

Libyan PM calls brief abduction a ‘coup’ by foes

Libyan PM calls brief abduction a ‘coup’ by foes

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya's Top Minister Ali Zeidan mentioned on Friday former rebels who kidnapped him in short have been part of an attempted "coup" by using his opponents in the united states of america's legislature, accusing them of in quest of to undermine his government. Gunmen snatched Zeidan from […]

 
 

Air raids and clashes near Syrian chemical weapons site

Air raids and clashes near Syrian chemical weapons site

By using Dominic Evans BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian air power warplanes bombarded revolt-held objectives just about a major chemical weapons facility on Friday in preventing that highlights the perils going through a global mission to get rid of President Bashar al-Assad's chemical arsenal. The Agency for the Prohibition of Chemical […]

 
 

Over 100 dead, 200 missing as migrant boat sinks off Italy

Over 100 dead, 200 missing as migrant boat sinks off Italy

By way of Wladimir Pantaleone PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) – Greater than 100 people drowned and over 200 had been unaccounted for after a ship packed with African migrants caught hearth and sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Thursday. The catastrophe befell when the boat’s motor stopped working […]

 
 

Netanyahu says Iranian missiles could eventually reach U.S.

Netanyahu says Iranian missiles could eventually reach U.S.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In his newest warning about Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned on Thursday that Iran was engaged on intercontinental ballistic missiles that could at some point hit the US. “They’re now not creating these ICBMs for us. They can attain us with what they’ve. […]