By James Pearson PYONGYANG (Reuters) – Isolated North Korea marked the 70th anniversary of its ruling Workers’ Party on Saturday with a massive military parade overseen by leader Kim Jong Un, who said his country was ready to fight any war waged by the United States. Thousands of troops stood at attention under a blue autumn sky in Pyongyang’s main Kim Il Sung Square, named after Kim Jong Un’s grandfather
N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Many people were wounded on Saturday in a triple bombing targeting a market and refugee camp in the village of Baga Sola in Chad that security sources blamed on Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist group. “We are still collecting the victims. We don’t have a figure yet (for the number of wounded),” a health worker at a hospital in the border town on Lake Chad told Reuters. (Reporting
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Developments relating to Saturday’s deadly bombing of a peace rally in the Turkish capital of Ankara. All times local.
ROME (AP) — Daniele Bracciali and Potito Starace have had their life bans for match-fixing lifted by the Italian tennis federation.
BERLIN (AP) — Svetlana Alexievich, the Belarusian author who just won the Nobel Prize for literature, said Saturday there is no doubt Alexander Lukashenko will be re-elected president this weekend because the process is entirely under his control.
Syrian government forces captured a village from rebels in the central province of Hama Saturday as they pressed a ground operation backed by Russian air support. In the northern Aleppo province, rebels battled to reverse an advance by the Islamic State group that brought the jihadists to within a few kilometres (miles) of Syria’s second city. In Hama, regime forces seized Atshan village from opposition fighters, including Islamists and Al-Qaeda
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Two nearly simultaneous explosions targeted a Turkish peace rally Saturday by Kurdish activists and opposition supporters in Ankara. At least 86 people were killed and nearly 190 wounded in what appeared to be suicide attacks, Turkish officials said.
Urbanization — the expansion of cities — is on the rise. People across the globe are heading into urban areas looking for work, education and health care. Others arrive, fleeing wars and natural disasters. Without the proper planning, the rapid increase in urban areas, especially in developing countries where most growth is happening, can lead to some big problems.
WASHINGTON/JANESVILLE, Wis. (Reuters) – A leading Republican congressman with allies on the right wing of the party, Paul Ryan, is weighing a bid to replace retiring U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, fellow lawmakers said on Friday as they sought to defuse a leadership battle. Numerous House Republicans and even 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney have asked Ryan to run for speaker after the front-runner, House Majority Leader Kevin
