World

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – The sudden resignation of Canada’s foreign minister has revealed strains inside the ruling Conservatives and complicates their bid to extend a decade in power in elections this October.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Several U.S. states are investigating a massive cyberattack on No.

AMMAN, (Reuters) – Jordanian fighter jets pounded Islamic State targets in Syria yesterday, before roaring over the hometown of the pilot killed by the militants while King Abdullah consoled the victim’s family.

KIEV, (Reuters) – The leaders of Germany and France announced a new peace plan for Ukraine yesterday, flying to Kiev with a proposal they would then take on to Moscow.

(Reuters) – Electronics retailer RadioShack Corp filed for U.S. bankruptcy protection yesterday and said it had a deal in place to sell as many as 2,400 stores to an affiliate of hedge fund Standard General, its lender and largest shareholder.

AMMAN, (Reuters) – Jordan’s King Abdullah vowed a “relentless” war against Islamic State on their own territory yesterday in response to a video published by the hard-line group showing a captured Jordanian air force pilot being burned alive in a cage.

TAIPEI, (Reuters) – The death toll from a TransAsia Airways plane that crashed into a Taipei river shortly after taking off has risen to 31, Taiwanese officials said yesterday, and could rise further with 12 people still missing.

VALHALLA, N.Y., (Reuters) – Hundreds of feet of electrified rail skewered the first two carriages of a New York commuter train in a collision with a car at a railroad crossing, a federal investigator said yesterday, describing the area’s worst rail crash in decades.

LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru established a no-fly zone over its most lawless coca-producing region in a bid to stop a growing number of small planes from smuggling cocaine to neighboring countries, the government said on Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner has told family members, including reality TV personalities the Kardashians, that he is becoming a woman and they have pledged their support, People magazine reported yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A global fund should be created to speed development of much-needed new antibiotics to counter the growing threat of drug-resistant superbugs, a British-government backed review said yesterday.

VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Salvadorans should see the beatification of Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was murdered by a right-wing death squad in 1980, as an opportunity to seek reconciliation in their violence-plagued country, a Vatican official said yesterday.

MOUNT PLEASANT, N.Y., (Reuters) – Seven people were killed and a dozen injured when a crowded New York commuter train struck a car stalled on the tracks near suburban White Plains during rush hour on Tuesday evening, in what officials said was the railroad’s deadliest accident.

AMMAN, (Reuters) – Islamic State militants released a video yesterday appearing to show a captured Jordanian pilot being burnt alive in a cage, a killing that shocked the world and prompted Jordan to promise an “earth-shaking” response.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – An Argentine prosecutor found dead in mysterious circumstances last month had drafted a request that President Cristina Fernandez be arrested for conspiring to derail his probe into the deadly bombing of a Jewish center, the investigator into his death said yesterday.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China has rebuked Norway for “violating the rights” of a Chinese scholar who was expelled from the country, state media said, in the latest friction that could strain ties already tense over a Nobel Peace Prize for a Chinese dissident.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harper Lee will publish her second novel more than 50 years after the release of her classic “To Kill a Mockingbird,” her publisher said yesterday.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain voted yesterday to become the first country to allow a “three-parent” IVF technique which doctors say will prevent some inherited incurable diseases but which critics see as a step towards creating designer babies.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto yesterday ordered an investigation of home purchases by himself, his wife and his finance minister from government contractors but he fell short of demands for an independent probe into possible corruption.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela said on Tuesday it has temporarily taken over 35 stores belonging to the “Dia a Dia” supermarket chain on charges it squirreled away food to stoke public exasperation over widespread shortages.