Captain and goalkeeper George Chigova starred for defending champions Zimbabwe as they edged Lesotho on penalties Wednesday to reach the Cosafa Cup final against Zambia. With the southern Africa championship semi-final goalless after 90 minutes in South African city Polokwane, Zimbabwe won the shootout 3-1 thanks to Chigova saving two spot-kicks. Chigova was beaten a [...]
AMMAN (Reuters) - Bayan Samara's children often asked her why she could not buy them new clothes or toys. So the Jordanian teacher took them to a rally in the capital. Source: Reuters World News
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's right-wing government plans to shut down seven mosques and expel up to 40 imams in what it said was "just the beginning" of a push against Islamist ideology and foreign funding of religious groups. Source: Reuters World News
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney on Friday welcomed a British plan for ensuring there are no customs checks along the Irish border when Britain leaves the European Union, but said it only told half the story. Source: Reuters World News
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Air strikes likely by Russia on a village in Syria's rebel-held Idlib province killed at least 44 people overnight, inflicting the highest death toll in a single attack on the region this year, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday. Source: Reuters World News
UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said he has grown "increasingly admiring" of Donald Trump and appeared to suggest that the US President would handle Brexit negotiations better than Prime Minister Theresa May during remarks made at a private dinner earlier this week. Source: Latest CNN News
ATHENS (Reuters) - At least five people were killed and two seriously injured on Friday when a small van carrying Iraqi and Syrian migrants smashed into a wall and overturned on a northern Greek motorway, police said. Source: Reuters World News
Continuing its strategy to reduce plastic waste in the island nation, Seychelles has banned the importation of single-use plastic straws, said a top official of the department of environment. The ban will include straws used in cocktails and other drinks but will exempt plastic straws attached to juice packets, said Nanette Laure, the director general [...]
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Two South Korean media staff have been arrested for trespassing at the home of the North Korean ambassador to Singapore, police said on Friday, just days before a high-stakes summit between the U.S. and North Korean leaders in the city-state. Source: Reuters World News
GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday it had pulled 71 international staff out of Yemen because of security incidents and threats, moving them to Djibouti. Source: Reuters World News