WORLD HEADLINES
An explosion apparently caused by an electrical fault injured several people at an opposition party rally in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir on Friday, days before parliamentary elections. Television footage showed people being carried out on stretchers as organizers of the rally for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) announced on loudspeakers that the explosion had been caused by a fault in a power generator and urged people to
FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Police in Florence wondered where all the money was going. Italy’s economy was heading off a cliff, but its Chinatowns were booming. Luxury cars snaked past Chinese betting parlors and garment factories that hummed into the night. Chinese immigrants were buying up Italian coffee bars and real estate. But their prosperity was not reflected in local tax records. “What do they do with the money?” said
The death toll from a suicide bombing at a market in the northeastern Nigerian town of Yola rose to 45 on Friday, authorities said. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack but it bore the hallmarks of Islamist militant group Boko Haram. “Ten more people died this morning,” police spokesman Othman Abubakar told Reuters, adding to the 35 bodies that a senior policeman, who wanted to remain anonymous,
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A physics professor at a Philadelphia university has pleaded not guilty to charges he gave U.S. technology secrets to China.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Jury deliberations have begun in the case against a former BP executive accused of lying to federal investigators about the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
NEW YORK (AP) — A strong jobs report knocked U.S. government bond prices down as investors bet that the Federal Reserve could raise interest rates later this year. Stocks drifted mostly lower.
By Megha Rajagopalan and John Ruwitch JIANLI, China (Reuters) – Hundreds of relatives of passengers from a Chinese cruise ship that foundered on the Yangtze River gathered in a public square in Jianli on Thursday clutching candles and flowers, as rescue officials began the arduous task of righting the vessel. Several family members, their eyes brimming with tears, knelt in the centre of the city square, about a-1.5 hour drive
By Mahmoud Mourad CAIRO (Reuters) – Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will face a second and final retrial over the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that ended his 30-year rule, a high court said on Thursday. Mubarak, 87, was originally sentenced to life in prison in 2012 for conspiring to murder 239 demonstrators, sowing chaos and creating a security vacuum during an 18-day revolt which began in Jan.
By Angus McDowall DAMMAM, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – When Sunni suicide bombers belonging to an Islamic State cell targeted mosques of Saudi Arabia’s minority Shi’ite community last month, the government quickly pledged national unity across sectarian lines and offered compensation. The attacks throw the royal family’s commitment to diversity into the spotlight just as animosity towards the minority rises along with tensions between Saudi Arabia and regional arch rival Shi’ite
By Luke Baker JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Every morning at 7.30, Murad Hamad sets up a flimsy plastic chair in the shade of the Moroccans’ Gate entrance to Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem and waits for the tourists to arrive. Hamad’s job is to help keep the peace at one of the world’s holiest places, a site sacred to both Muslims, who call the compound the Noble Sanctuary, and to
