World

AMMAN, (Reuters) – Cooperation with Fateh al-Sham, formerly al Qaeda’s Nusra Front, could bring “dire consequences” for Syria’s mainstream rebel groups once a proposed U.S.-Russian

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The notes are handwritten on a legal pad and provide a verbatim account of the shock, pain and grim determination aboard Air Force One on Sept.

MADRID (Reuters) – Several thousand people rallied in Madrid yesterday to demand a ban on bullfighting, adding their voices to a growing animal rights movement that has prompted some local authorities to clamp down on the centuries-old tradition.

TORONTO (Reuters) – A new film about the true story of an African king and white British woman whose marriage triggered a political crisis is first and foremost a love story, its star and director said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Greta Friedman, the woman in white kissed by a sailor in New York’s Times Square in a photograph symbolizing the end of World War Two, has died at age 92, media reports said yesterday.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The United States and Russia hailed a breakthrough deal last night to put Syria’s peace process back on track, including a nationwide ceasefire effective from sundown on Monday, improved aid access and joint targeting of banned militant Islamist groups.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – The United States, Britain and France pushed the United Nations Security Council yesterday to impose new sanctions on North Korea over its fifth and biggest nuclear test as the 15-member council condemned the move by Pyongyang.

OSLO/SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – Facebook Inc yesterday reinstated a Vietnam War-era photo of a naked girl fleeing a napalm attack, after a public outcry over its removal of the image including harsh criticism from Norway’s prime minister.

SEOUL/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A U.S. government safety agency yesterday urged all consumers to stop using Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones, which are prone to catch fire, and top airlines globally banned their use during flights.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – North Korea was likely to have conducted its fifth and largest nuclear test last night, South Korean officials and analysts said after meteorological agencies reported a surface-level seismic tremor near the North’s known test site.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader and two-time presidential candidate Henrique Capriles said hooded and armed pro-government gang had surrounded the airport of Margarita island after he landed on Wednesday evening to prevent him and others on the flight leaving.

NAIROBI,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Kenya aims to restore trees and vegetation across almost nine percent of its land mass by 2030, the government said yesterday, in a bold initiative to combat climate change, poverty and hunger.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Posters warning of the dangers of Zika only reached Haiti’s health ministry in August, six months after the country reported an outbreak, in one example of delayed prevention efforts that have health experts worried a “large epidemic” is looming.

DAR ES SALAAM, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tanzania has threatened to ban non-governmental groups that “promote” the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people in the first public statement the government has made against the minority group.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – The benefits of statins – cholesterol-busting drugs that can dramatically reduce the risk of heart attacks and strokes – have been underestimated and their harms exaggerated, scientists said on Thursday in a major review of research.

VIENTIANE,  (Reuters) – The Philippines said yesterday it was “gravely concerned” that Chinese boats were preparing to build structures at a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, shattering an appearance of cordiality at an Asian summit in Laos.

MECCA,  (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s top religious authority said Iran’s leaders were not Muslims, drawing a rebuke from Tehran in an unusually harsh exchange between the regional rivals over the running of the annual haj pilgrimage.

MARACAIBO, Venezuela,  (Reuters) – Foes of President Nicolas Maduro protested across Venezuela yesterday to demand a referendum to end his socialist rule, but numbers were far smaller than a huge opposition showing last week and matched by parallel pro-government rallies.

PHOENIX,  (Reuters) – A briefcase containing about $3 million in jewellery was stolen from a bus being used by Grammy-winning rapper Drake on his latest concert tour, Phoenix police said yesterday.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Scrub typhus, a deadly disease common in southeast Asia and spread by microscopic biting mites known as chiggers, has now taken hold in a part of South America and may have become endemic there, scientists said yesterday.