World

ABUJA/MAIDUGURI,  (Reuters) – Nigerian ironworker Ba Kaka initially felt sympathy for Boko Haram’s violent uprising against a state he and many others saw as corrupt, un-Islamic and kowtowing to Western ideology.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Outraged by the release of an infamous Mexican drug boss jailed for ordering the brutal 1985 murder of a U.S.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A series of car bombs in mainly Shi’ite areas of Baghdad killed 57 people and wounded more than 150 yesterday, in what appeared to be coordinated attacks on people celebrating the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Warplanes bombed a village in Syria’s north overnight in an apparent effort by President Bashar al-Assad to prevent rebels fighting him from advancing on communities in the stronghold region of his Alawite sect.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s approval rating gained six percentage points since hitting an all-time low in late June after massive nationwide protests, a poll published yesterday showed.

BELFAST (Reuters) – Fifty-six police officers and two civilians were injured in clashes in central Belfast in the latest flare-up in tensions between Northern Ireland’s Protestant and Catholic communities, authorities said yesterday.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela’s health is improving daily and he is now able to sit up for minutes at a time, his youngest daughter told state broadcaster SABC.

BAGHDAD,  (Reuters) – A series of car bombs in mainly Shi’ite areas of Baghdad killed 57 people and wounded more than 150 today, in what appeared to be coordinated attacks on people celebrating the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Barack Obama announced plans yesterday to limit sweeping U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Friday denied he has poor relations with Vladimir Putin after canceling their Moscow talks, but said the Russian president can sometimes appear “like a bored kid in the back of the classroom.”

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Eighteen of the 19 U.S. embassies and consulates closed this month due to worries about potential terrorist attacks will reopen tomorrow, the U.S.

ALGIERS/LONDON  (Reuters) – Inquiries into the bloody assault on an Algerian gas plant are uncovering increasing evidence of contacts between the assailants and the jihadis involved in killing the U.S.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Only months after archaeologists discovered the missing body of Richard III, researchers are about to test human remains to see if they are those of another king, Alfred the Great, a ninth-century monarch.

ALGIERS/LONDON  (Reuters) – Inquiries into the bloody assault on an Algerian gas plant are uncovering increasing evidence of contacts between the assailants and the jihadis involved in killing the U.S.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – A Miami man who reportedly posted a photo of his wife’s body on Facebook after killing her turned himself in to authorities yesterday and confessed to the slaying, police said.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – Investors from Europe, Asia and the United States are not the only ones chasing growth opportunities in Africa these days – Africans themselves are waking up to the potential across borders in their own backyard.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – An experimental malaria vaccine proved highly effective in a small, early-stage clinical trial in people, raising hope in the global effort to combat the deadly disease, U.S.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Egypt’s political crisis entered a tense new phase yesterday after international mediation efforts collapsed and the army-installed government repeated its threat to take action against supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday canceled a Moscow summit with President Vladimir Putin planned for next month in retaliation for Russia’s decision to grant asylum to fugitive U.S.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – Highly radioactive water from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is pouring out at a rate of 300 tonnes a day, officials said yesterday, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ordered the government to step in and help in the clean-up.