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| Streets of Ivory Coast's second city calm after soldier mutiny | |  BOUAKE (Reuters) - The streets of Ivory Coast's second-largest city Bouake were calm and the military presence was gone, residents said on Sunday, after a two-day soldiers' mutiny calling for bonus pay and better living conditions took over the city. The mutiny began early on Friday when rogue soldiers seized Bouake. Soldiers at military camps in cities and towns across the country, including the commercial capital Abidjan, joined the rebellion. A deal was reached between the government and the soldiers late on Saturday after negotiations. ...
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| U.S. official in Mexico shot in chest, in stable condition | | | A U.S. consular official in the Mexican city of Guadalajara was shot by a gunman but was in stable condition, Mexican authorities said on Saturday, prompting the FBI to offer a reward for information. The victim was attacked on Friday evening in Mexico's second largest city, in the often violent western state of Jalisco, according to Mexico's Attorney General and the U.S. embassy. A Mexican security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the victim was named Christopher Ashcraft. |
| U.S. warns citizens against visiting tourist spot Gambia | | | The United States warned its citizens against visiting the tourist destination of Gambia on Saturday, and told those there to considering leaving, citing the risk of unrest as President Yahya Jammeh digs in despite losing an election. "The U.S. Department of State warns U.S. citizens against travel to The Gambia because of the potential for civil unrest and violence in the near future," the statement on its website said. It said the supreme court hearing on Jan. 10 of Jammeh's challenge to the result that elected his rival Adama Barrow was a potential flashpoint for violence. |
| West Africa leaders to continue Gambia mediation - Liberia president | |  By Kwasi Kpodo ACCRA (Reuters) - West African leaders are still pursuing mediation to ensure a peaceful transfer of power in Gambia where President Yahya Jammeh refused to accept defeat in an election last month, Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said on Saturday. Sirleaf told reporters after a meeting among regional leaders in Ghana's capital Accra that regional bloc ECOWAS did not yet intend to deploy its standby military force in Gambia. "We are committed to a peaceful mediation and a peaceful transfer of power in the Gambia ... we will continue to pursue that for now," Sirleaf, who chairs the 15-member body, said.
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| Retiree and volunteer fireman among Florida airport shooting fatalities | |  A volunteer firefighter in his sixties and a retiree en route to a cruise ship vacation with her husband were among the five travelers fatally gunned down during Friday's airport attack in Florida, according to relatives and friends. Authorities have not named any of the victims of the rampage in a crowded baggage claim area at Fort Lauderdale's airport, which also left six others shot and dozens more with injuries suffered in the chaos as people fled. Terry Andres, a volunteer fireman from Virginia Beach, Virginia, was at the airport to go on vacation with his wife, his daughter told local broadcaster WAVY-TV.
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| Chilean senator named presidential candidate of center - left party | |  By Antonio De la Jara SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean journalist-turned senator Alejandro Guillier accepted the presidential nomination of the center-left Radical Party on Saturday with promises to deepen education reforms and revamp the private pension system. Guillier, an independent anti-establishment senator who was little known nationally a year ago, has risen rapidly in opinion polls to become a favorite in the November presidential election alongside center-right ex-president Sebastian Pinera. The Radical Party's nomination of Guillier bolsters his chances of becoming the center-left ruling coalition New Majority's candidate.
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| Ivory Coast defence minister, others freed by mutinying soldiers | |  By Ange Aboa BOUAKE, Ivory Coast (Reuters) - Rogue soldiers allowed Ivory Coast's defence minister and dozens of others to leave a house where they had been trapped on Saturday when some mutineers appeared to reject aspects of a deal intended to end a two-day revolt, a Reuters witness said. It remained unclear, however, whether the disgruntled soldiers - most of them former rebel fighters now integrated into the army - would honour the agreement announced by President Alassane Ouattara just hours earlier. The mutiny began early on Friday when the soldiers seized Bouake, Ivory Coast's second largest city.
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| French military to boost defenses against cyber attacks - minister | |  France is no less vulnerable than the United States to cyber attacks from foreign countries and the French military will boost its resources to defend against them, the French defence minister said on Sunday. In an interview with French weekly Le Journal du Dimanche Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said there is a real risk of cyber attacks on French civil infrastructure such as water, electricity, telecommunications and transport, as well as against French democracy and the media. U.S. intelligence agencies said in a report released on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had directed a cyber campaign to help Republican Donald Trump's electoral chances by discrediting Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential campaign.
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| Gun was given back to Florida shooting suspect last month | |  By Zachary Fagenson FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) - Police in Alaska took a handgun from the man accused of killing five people at Fort Lauderdale's airport on Friday, but they returned it to him last month after a medical evaluation found he was not mentally ill, authorities said on Saturday. Esteban Santiago, a 26-year-old Iraq war veteran, had a history of acting erratically and investigators are probing whether mental illness played a role in the latest U.S. mass shooting. Santiago was charged on Saturday in federal court and could potentially face the death penalty if convicted in the case, U.S. prosecutors said.
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