Syrian rebels agree to evacuate town in Ghouta: sources
AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian rebels will evacuate a besieged town in eastern Ghouta, opposition sources and officials and a military media unit run by the government’s ally Hezbollah said on Wednesday, the first such deal in the last rebel bastion near the…
Identical twins and ‘carousels’: Russia’s fairground election
UST-DJEGUTA, Russia (Reuters) – Ludmila Sklyarevskaya, a Russian hospital administrator, voted on Sunday in an election that gave Vladimir Putin another term as Russia’s president.
Four Indian soldiers, four militants killed in Kashmir attack: police
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – Four Indian soldiers and four suspected militants were killed in a gunbattle near the de facto border between India and Pakistan in the disputed region of Kashmir on Wednesday, a senior police official said.
Strike in northwest Syria kills 20, including 16 children: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – An air raid on a rebel-held area of northwestern Syria killed 20 people including 16 children fleeing an earlier strike on a school, rescue workers said on Wednesday.
Suicide bomber kills more than 30 near shrine in Afghan capital
KABUL (Reuters) – A suicide bomber blew himself up near a shrine in Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least 32 people and wounding dozens, as the Afghan capital celebrated the Nawruz holiday marking the start of the Persian new year.
Militants free scores of abducted Nigerian schoolgirls after month in captivity
DAPCHI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Islamist militants drove scores of kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls back into the town where they had been captured a month ago and abruptly set them free on Wednesday.
Executions, torture and slave markets persist in Libya: U.N.
GENEVA (Reuters) – Armed groups execute and torture civilians in Libya in almost complete impunity seven years after the revolution that toppled Muammar Gaddafi, the United Nations human rights office said on Wednesday.
ILO sets up rare inquiry into Venezuelan workers’ rights: official
GENEVA (Reuters) – The International Labour Organization (ILO) launched a commission of inquiry on Wednesday into complaints that Venezuela is not upholding standards including freedom of association and workers’ rights to organize, a spokesman said.
Pope sacks Vatican communications chief following ‘Lettergate’ scandal
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Monsignor Dario Vigano, the Italian head of the Vatican communications department who was caught up in the so-called “Lettergate” scandal, has resigned, the Vatican said on Wednesday.
Kremlin condemns British ambassador’s decision to skip spy briefing
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Wednesday that a decision by the British ambassador to skip a Russian briefing on the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britain showed London was unwilling to listen to Moscow’s si…
