KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A minibus packed with explosives blew up in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Tuesday causing dozens of casualties, officials said, as fighting continued across the country during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Source: Reuters World News
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A bomb in a minibus exploded near a security checkpoint in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Tuesday causing numerous casualties, officials said, as attacks continue during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Source: Reuters World News
BERLIN (Reuters) - German prosecutors said on Tuesday that they were preparing an application to allow the extradition former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont to Spain. Source: Reuters World News
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan has hinted that Turkey might consider imposing a ban on imports of some Israeli goods over the killing of Palestinian protesters by Israeli forces on the Gaza border, media reported on Tuesday. Source: Reuters World News
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union on Tuesday called on Israel to reinstate the visa of Omar Shakir, the representative of Human Rights Watch in the country, which was withdrawn after Israel accused him of supporting a boycott against it. Source: Reuters World News
Six lucky Seychellois will have the chance to visit the exotic and hard-to-reach Aldabra now that the Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF) has launched a video competition to find volunteers to help clean up the atoll. Aldabra -- one of the world’s largest atolls -- is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Seychelles, a group of [...]
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The head of Malaysia's anti-graft agency gave an explosive account on Tuesday of how witnesses disappeared and officers were purged and intimidated after they tried in 2015 to charge ex-premier Najib Razak for siphoning funds from a state fund. Source: Reuters World News
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A senior Iranian military commander poured scorn on U.S. threats to tighten sanctions on Tuesday, saying the Islamic Republic's people would respond by punching U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the mouth. Source: Reuters World News
BEIJING (Reuters) - China rebuffed U.S. concerns about its ties with Venezuela on Tuesday after Washington imposed new sanctions on the crisis-stricken oil-producing country following the re-election of its socialist President Nicolas Maduro. Source: Reuters World News
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - The Marie Stopes Ladies who drive from village to village in the remote north of Burkina Faso offering free contraception, advice on family planning, sexual health and sometimes abortion, may have to stop work in June. Source: Reuters World News