The Indianapolis Colts signed backup quarterback Josh Johnson after the National Football League team listed starter Andrew Luck as questionable for Sunday’s game against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Luck, who has an injury to his throwing shoulder, saw limited practice time with the team on Friday. Head coach Chuck Pagano said Luck is questionable but he remains hopeful that Luck will start Sunday.
By Alexander Winning and Suleiman Al-Khalidi MOSCOW/AMMAN (Reuters) – Russian jets hit Islamic State targets and other rebel groups in Syria on Saturday, on a fourth day of air strikes by Moscow in support of President Bashar al-Assad which have dramatically escalated foreign intervention in Syria. Russia’s air campaign in Syria, where a U.S.-led air coalition and fighters on the ground from regional states are already entangled in the four-year-old
By Hamid Shalizi and Andrew MacAskill KABUL (Reuters) – An airstrike hit a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Afghan city of Kunduz on Saturday, killing at least 16 people in what the U.S. military called possible “collateral damage” in the battle to oust Taliban insurgents. Frantic MSF staff phoned military officials at NATO in Kabul and Washington after the attack, and bombs continued to rain down near
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican on Saturday dismissed a gay priest from his Holy See job on the eve of a major Church meeting for a highly public coming out that challenged the Roman Catholic teaching that homosexual acts are a sin. Monsignor Krzysztof Charamsa, a Polish theologian, had worked at the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican’s doctrinal arm, since 2003. The
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Suicide car bomb attacks targeting two mainly Shi’ite Muslim districts of Baghdad killed at least 18 people on Saturday, police and medical sources said. The attacks targeted the mainly Shi’ite districts of Kadhimiya and Hurriya in northern Baghdad. Police said at least 60 people were wounded. (Reporting by Baghdad news room; Writing by Babak Dehghanpisheh; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel wants to avoid an adversarial relationship with Moscow and is unsure how Russia’s recent military intervention in Syria will affect the situation there. Netanyahu, in an interview recorded for broadcast on Sunday on “CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS,” did not join the United States and other NATO nations in criticizing Russia’s taking military action in Syria.
More than 20,000 people took part in a rally in Vienna on Saturday to show support for migrants and reject a recent upswing in support for Austria’s right-wing, anti-immigration Freedom Party (FPO). Last month alone, about 200,000 refugees and migrants – many fleeing war in Syria – entered the nation of 8.5 million, fuelling support for the FPO in recent provincial elections and national polls. Protesters marching towards parliament in
BERLIN (AP) — Borussia Moenchengladbach defeated Bundesliga runner-up Wolfsburg 2-0 at home Saturday to cap a remarkable turnaround after its dismal start to the season.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates held a tightly controlled election Saturday for its largely advisory Federal National Council, with only a portion of Emiratis eligible to cast ballots.
Malaysia’s police department has had no contact from the U.S Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on any investigation into state fund 1MDB or Prime Minister Najib Razak, the police chief said on Saturday. 1MDB has debts of more than $11 billion and is under investigation by national and foreign authorities over allegations of financial mismanagement and graft. The Wall Street Journal reported on Sept. 20 that the FBI had launched
