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| Three dead in attack and Islamist protests in Egypt | | | CAIRO (Reuters) - Three people including an army general were killed and at least 26 wounded on Friday in a drive-by shooting and violence that erupted at Islamist protests around Egypt, security sources and health officials said. Police were out in force for the demonstrations, organised by a hardline Salafi group calling for the ousting of the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the ex-army chief who led last year's overthrow of elected Islamist president Mohamed Mursi. ... |
| Three expatriate workers kidnapped in Nigeria's delta region | | | YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Three expatriate construction workers were kidnapped on Friday in Nigeria's Bayelsa state in the delta region, a witness and a security source said. The men, two Pakistani and one Indian, were seized at Emakalakala town in the Ogbia council area, a few miles from their construction base. The witness who declined to be named for fear of reprisals said he saw sporadic shooting in the air before the men were pulled into a waiting speed boat. Security forces have yet to officially confirm the kidnapping. ... |
| Ferguson police block clean-up brigade from entering damaged area | |  By Daniel Wallis and Edward McAllister FERGUSON, Mo.(Reuters) - A group of people in Ferguson, Missouri, on Friday attempted to enter a main thoroughfare of the St. Louis suburb to clean up stores damaged in this week's racially charged rioting but a line of police blocked them from entering the area. West Florissant Avenue is home to a Walgreen Co store and other businesses that were looted or burned on Monday after a decision by a grand jury not to indict a white police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in August. ...
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| Bombs, gunfire kill 35 at crowded mosque in Nigeria's Kano | | | By Nnekule Ikemfuna KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen set off three bombs and opened fire on worshippers at the central mosque in north Nigeria's biggest city Kano, killing at least 35 people on Friday, witnesses and police said, in an attack that bore the hallmarks of Islamist Boko Haram militants. "These people have bombed the mosque. I am face to face with people screaming," said Chijjani Usman, a local reporter who had gone to the mosque in the old city to pray. ... |
| At least 35 people killed, many wounded in Nigerian mosque attack | | | LONDON (Reuters) - At least 35 people were killed and many wounded in a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in Nigeria's biggest northern city Kano on Friday, the deputy police commissioner told reporters. Gunmen set off three bombs and fired on worshippers at the central mosque, witnesses said, in an assault that bore the hallmarks of Islamist Boko Haram militants. (Reporting by Nnekule Ikemfuma, Writing by Julia Payne; Editing by Andrew Heavens) |
| Bombs, gunfire at crowded central mosque in northern Nigeria's Kano | | | By Nnekule Ikemfuna KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen set off three bombs and fired on worshippers at the central mosque of north Nigeria's biggest city Kano for Friday prayers, witnesses said, an attack that bore the hallmarks of Islamist Boko Haram militants. It was not immediately possible to determine a reliable death toll in the chaotic aftermath of the attack but the area had been densely packed with worshippers. A police spokesman in Kano declined to make any immediate comment. "These people have bombed the mosque. ... |
| China probes 'five networks' of disgraced ex-security chief - People's Daily | | | BEIJING (Reuters) - An investigation into China's former domestic security chief is probing five different networks, the newspaper of the ruling Communist Party said on Friday, naming senior figures it said may have benefited from his alleged corruption. The party announced in July that Zhou Yongkang was being investigated for suspected "serious disciplinary violations", the usual euphemism for corruption, though it could also imply additional wrongdoing. ... |
| Eyeing deadline, France to back Palestinian state if peace talks fail | |  By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) - France warned on Friday it would recognise a Palestinian state if a final international effort to overcome the impasse between Israelis and Palestinians failed, and proposed a two-year timeframe to end the conflict through a U.N.-backed resolution. Lawmakers will hold a symbolic parliamentary vote on Dec. 2 on whether the French government should recognise Palestine as a state, a move that the Israeli Prime Minister has called a "grave mistake". ...
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| Army brigadier general shot dead in Cairo suburb - sources | | | CAIRO (Reuters) - An army brigadier general was shot dead by unknown assailants in the Cairo district of Gesr al-Suez, security sources said on Friday. The officer was killed and two others wounded when gunmen opened fire in a parking garage before fleeing the scene, the state news agency MENA said, citing an army statement. Egypt is facing an Islamist insurgency in which hundreds of security officers have been killed since Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Mursi was ousted last summer. ... |
| FACTBOX - Modi's reform agenda to revive economic growth in India | |  NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's economy lost momentum in the first three months of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, amplifying industry calls for faster and deeper economic reform. Following is the status of key pending reforms: FDI IN INSURANCE The government needs approval during a parliamentary session ending on Dec. 23 to allow overseas investors to hold a 49 percent stake in insurance companies, up from the current 26 percent cap. The law would also raise the cap for the pension industry. The opposition has not yet promised support needed to pass the law in upper house. ...
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