Saudi-led coalition denies blocking aid to Yemen
RIYADH (Reuters) – The Saudi-led military coalition fighting in Yemen has denied blocking aid and basic supplies from entering, following a Reuters story detailing how Yemen is struggling to cope with a new outbreak of the bacterial disease diphtheria.
Uganda’s Museveni signs law removing age cap for president
KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has signed a law that scraps a 75-year age cap for presidential candidates, a spokesman for parliament said on Tuesday, a move critics say will allow him to remain in power indefinitely.
Boko Haram displaced barter to survive
ABUJA (Reuters) – Cash cannot be king for the people of Bakasi camp.
Norway PM Solberg opens talks to include Liberals in coalition
MOSS, Norway (Reuters) – Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg began negotiations on Tuesday to add the small Liberal Party to her cabinet, emphasizing jobs creation and energy policy among top priorities for the talks.
Nation of pessimists no more: French more optimistic under Macron – poll
PARIS (Reuters) – The French have become more optimistic about the future that at any time in the past eight years, a survey showed on Tuesday, belying their reputation as a nation of pessimists.
Moldova leader pans “shameful” court decision to suspend his powers
KIEV (Reuters) – Moldovan President Igor Dodon on Tuesday rejected a decision by the country’s constitutional court to suspend his powers temporarily due to a wrangle between him and the pro-Western government over ministerial appointments.
Previously detained ex-finance minister Assaf seen at Saudi cabinet meeting
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi state minister Ibrahim al-Assaf was seen attending a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, according to a photograph published on official media, almost two months after the veteran official was reported detained in a crackdown on corrup…
Dalit protests cause disruptions in India’s financial capital
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Thousands of Dalits, who rank at the lower end of India’s ancient caste hierarchy, disrupted traffic and threw stones at buses in Mumbai on Tuesday as they protested against violence in a nearby city in which a man was killed.
U.N. rights experts decry repression of activists in Saudi Arabia
GENEVA (Reuters) – United Nations human rights experts called on Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to end “repression” of rights activists and release dozens detained since September for peacefully exercising their civil and political rights.
Egypt files murder charges against man held for Coptic church attack
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s public prosecutor has filed murder charges against a man accused of killing 11 people in an attack on a Coptic church and a Christian-owned shop in a Cairo suburb last week, judicial sources said.
