DUBLIN (AP) — A former Irish Republican Army commander linked to one of the outlawed group’s most notorious killings was shot to death at close range Tuesday morning on a street near his home in Belfast, residents and police said.
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepali police and local volunteers found the bodies of about 100 trekkers and villagers buried in an avalanche set off by last month’s devastating earthquake and were digging through snow and ice for signs of dozens more missing, officials said on Monday. “Local volunteers and police personnel are digging through six-feet (deep) snow with shovels looking for more bodies,” said Gautam Rimal, assistant chief
By Amena Bakr and Jibran Ahmad AL-KHOR, Qatar/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Representatives at preliminary talks aiming to end Afghanistan’s long war have agreed that Taliban insurgents should open a political office for negotiations, but disagreement over foreign troops still clouds the prospects for a ceasefire. A statement issued on Monday outlined the agreements reached by at least 40 delegates to a “non-official meeting” bringing together Taliban representatives, Afghan government figures
By Mohammed Mukhashef ADEN (Reuters) – Local fighters battling the rebel Houthi militia in Yemen’s port of Aden stormed areas around the airport on Sunday in an operation supervised by the Saudi-led coalition, which also provided air support, the group’s spokesman said. “Special forces from the southern fighters have been prepared and trained for an operation to attack Aden airport,” said Ali al-Ahmadi, spokesman for the Southern Popular Resistance. Ahmadi
By Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) – Nearly 4,100 migrants were rescued from boats near the coast of Libya on Saturday and Sunday and rescue operations continued as people smugglers took advantage of calm seas, Italy’s coast guard and navy said. All of those rescued were being brought to Italian shores, with some already arriving at Lampedusa, Italy’s southernmost island, and Trapani, Sicily. The smugglers make an average of 80,000 euros
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Three people were pulled out alive from the rubble of their home eight days after Nepal’s devastating earthquake, an official said on Sunday, but rescuers have found about 50 bodies on a popular trekking route that was hit by an avalanche. A home ministry official said police and army rescued three people from the rubble in the district of Sindhupalchowk, northeast of the capital
By Stephen Addison LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge, the wife of Prince William, gave birth to a girl on Saturday, the couple’s second child and a sister to one-year-old Prince George. The royal family’s newest member was born at 8:34 a.m. (3.34 a.m. ET), some 2-1/2 hours after Kate Middleton was admitted in the early stages of labor to St Mary’s Hospital, West London, the couple’s Kensington Palace
By Frank Jack Daniel and Andrew R.C. Marshall KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Bureaucracy at Kathmandu airport was holding up vital relief supplies for survivors of the earthquake in Nepal on Saturday as the death toll from the disaster passed 6,600. U.N. Resident Representative Jamie McGoldrick said the government must loosen customs restrictions to deal with the increasing flow of relief material and avoid bottlenecks. Material was piling up at the Kathmandu
By Rupam Jain Nair and Sanjeev Miglani KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepali and foreign officials were struggling on Friday to locate thousands of people still missing after last week’s massive earthquake, as food and other relief supplies began to trickle through to those stranded in remote parts of the country. Up to 1,000 Europeans are among the missing, mostly around popular trekking routes, the head of the European Union (EU) delegation
By Humeyra Pamuk and Nick Tattersall ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon at hundreds of stone-throwing May Day protesters on Friday, after they defied a ban and tried to march on Istanbul’s Taksim Square. Riot police unleashed water cannon and chased protesters down side streets in the nearby Besiktas neighborhood and also they also fired off canisters of tear gas, a Reuters reporter said. Istanbul