World

BUDAPEST,  (Reuters) – Hungarians collaborated with Nazis in sending nearly half a million Jews to their deaths, Hungary’s president said yesterday in a rare public acknowledgement of a war-time past that Jewish groups say is often glossed over.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. military carried out a missile strike in Somalia yesterday targeting a suspected militant leader with ties to al Qaeda and al Shabaab, a U.S.

COLUMBIA, Md., (Reuters) – A gunman who shot and killed two people at a Maryland mall was a 19-year-old who lived with his mother in a nearby Washington suburb and arrived at the shopping center in a taxi about an hour before opening fire, police said yesterday.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Twenty-nine people were killed during anti-government marches yesterday while thousands rallied in support of the army-led authorities, underlining Egypt’s volatile political fissures three years after the fall of autocrat President Hosni Mubarak.

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Five Egyptian embassy staff kidnapped in Tripoli were abducted in retaliation for the arrest of a Libyan militia commander by Egyptian authorities, the Libyan government said yesterday.

PARIS (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande announced his separation from first lady Valerie Trierweiler yesterday following a media storm over allegations he is having an affair with an actress.

KIEV (Reuters) – A Ukrainian opposition leader who was offered the post of prime minister by embattled President Viktor Yanukovich yesterday said the opposition was ready to lead the country.

GENEVA (Reuters) – Syria’s civil war foes held their first face-to-face meeting yesterday, launching talks aimed at ending nearly three years of conflict which has killed 130,000 people and destabilised the wider Middle East.

COLUMBIA, Md (Reuters) – A gunman opened fire with a shotgun in a skate shop at a crowded shopping mall near Baltimore yesterday, killing two store employees and wounding another person, then apparently killing himself, police said.

COLUMBIA, Md., (Reuters) – Three people died in a shooting at a large shopping mall outside of Baltimore, Maryland, on Saturday, and one of the dead was believed to be the shooter, police said.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela yesterday decreed a new price control law that sets limits on company profits and establishes prison terms for those charged with hoarding or over-charging, part of socialist President Nicolas Maduro’s efforts to tame inflation.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – A wave of bomb attacks targeting police hit Cairo yesterday, killing six people on the eve of the third anniversary of the uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak and raising fears that an Islamist insurgency is gaining pace in Egypt.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The Syrian government and its opponents will hold their first joint meeting today to launch peace talks aimed at resolving nearly three years of civil war, after negotiations almost collapsed before they began.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – One of Colombia’s top former drug traffickers, Diego Perez Henao, pleaded guilty to smuggling more than 80 tons of cocaine into the United States over the course of almost two decades, according to federal prosecutors in Miami.

BANGUI,  (Reuters) – A Muslim former minister was hacked to death by machete-wielding militiamen in the capital of the Central African Republic yesterday, as clashes escalated a day after interim President Catherine Samba-Panza took office.

DAVOS, Switzerland,  (Reuters) – Pepsico, Nestle and Cisco yesterday announced major investments that together totaled more than $7 billion in Mexico, where the government has pushed through a series of economic reforms that aim to boost foreign investment and growth.

KIEV, (Reuters) – Ukrainian anti-government protesters erected more street barricades in the capital Kiev early on Friday after opposition leaders emerged empty-handed from talks with President Viktor Yanukovich that were aimed at defusing two months of unrest.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. National Security Agency’s bulk collection of phone records provides only minimal benefits to countering terrorism, is illegal and should end, a federal privacy watchdog said in a report released ysterday.

ZHENGZHOU, China, (Reuters) – Asia’s top mergers and acquisitions bankers gathered two years ago at the swanky Island Shangri La in Hong Kong to celebrate the top deals of 2012.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela revamped its 11-year-old currency controls yesterday, creating a dual-rate system intended to stem rampant embezzlement of oil dollars, a change critics pilloried as a disguised devaluation.