BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian state-run oil company Ecopetrol SA said on Sunday a bomb attack on the Transandino pipeline caused spillage in southwestern Narino close to the border with Ecuador. The pipeline…
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Palestinians release dual U.S. national convicted over land sales: officials
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – The Palestinian Authority has handed over to U.S. authorities an American-Palestinian it had sentenced to life imprisonment for violating a ban on selling land to Israelis, two…
Qatar says Gaza payouts on track after delay over border violence
DOHA (Reuters) – A third Qatari cash donation for impoverished Gaza civil servants will be made this week after it was held back by Israel in protest at Palestinian border violence, a…
African Union postpones Congo talks on contested election
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – The African Union (AU) has postponed a high-level visit by a delegation to Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday for talks about last month’s contested presidential election, an…
Zimbabwe crackdown a sign of things to come, president’s spokesman warns
HARARE (Reuters) – A crackdown last week on protests in Zimbabwe is a foretaste of how the government will respond to future unrest, the president’s spokesman said, fuelling concerns that the southern…
Sudan unrest enters second month with protests in Omdurman
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudanese security forces fired tear gas on Sunday at several hundred protesters and chased them down side streets, a Reuters witness said, as anti-government protests entered their second month….
Bus bomb in Syria’s Afrin kills three: witnesses
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A bomb planted on a public bus in the northwest Syrian town of Afrin killed three civilians and wounded about 20, several witnesses told Reuters on Sunday. The blast…
Eight U.N. peacekeepers killed in attack in northern Mali
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Eight U.N. peacekeepers were killed and several were wounded while repelling an attack by armed assailants near a village in northern Mali on Sunday, the West African nation’s U.N….
Number of dead in Mexico pipeline explosion rises to 79: minister
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s health minister said on Sunday that the number of people killed in a gasoline pipeline explosion has risen to 79. Another 66 people remained hospitalized, Jorge Alcocer…
Russia says airport in southeast Damascus targeted in Israeli attack: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s National Defense Control Center said an attack by four Israeli jets on Sunday, thwarted by Syrian military air defense systems, targeted an airport in southeastern Damascus, RIA news…