Yemen’s main warring factions endorsed a U.N.-brokered humanitarian truce from midnight on Friday although heavy fighting on the ground and Saudi air strikes carried on relentlessly.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has agreed to make a landmark visit to Pakistan next year, India's foreign secretary said on Friday, signaling a warming of ties between the nuclear-armed neighbors after a year of tensions.
Five hardliners in Greece's ruling Syriza party said on Friday dropping out of the euro zone and a return to the drachma was preferable to a deal with international creditors laced with austerity and without any provision for debt relief.
The Confederate battle flag, a symbol of both racism and southern pride, will be removed on Friday from the South Carolina state Capitol grounds after the Civil War banner fell from favor since the slaying of nine black churchgoers in June.
