Gruesome Uganda murders put police role in the public dock
KAMPALA (Reuters) – A spate of unsolved murders of young women in Uganda is putting rare public pressure on a police force long accused by opposition politicians of spending more time suppressing political dissent than tackling crime.
Rohingya say their village is lost to Myanmar’s spiraling conflict
KUTAPALONG, Bangladesh (Reuters) – The villagers said the soldiers came first, firing indiscriminately. Then came civilians, accompanying the soldiers, to loot and burn.
Pope to urge Colombians to come together around peace deal
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Pope Francis will use his first full day in Colombia to send a message of unity, planting a tree of peace and saying a Mass to preach reconciliation in a nation bitterly divided after five decades of war.
Australia’s High Court rejects challenge to postal vote on same-sex marriage
Melbourne (Reuters) – Australia’s High Court rejected two legal challenges on Thursday to the center-right coalition government’s proposed postal vote on whether to legalize same-sex marriage.
Indonesian school a launchpad for child fighters in Syria’s Islamic State
SUKAJAYA, Indonesia (Reuters) – Hatf Saiful Rasul was 11 years old when he told his father, a convicted Islamic militant, that he wanted to leave school and go to Syria to fight for Islamic State.
South Korea deploys anti-missile system as U.S. seeks tough North Korea sanctions
SEOUL/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – South Korean protesters clashed with thousands of police over the deployment of a defense system aimed at countering North Korean missile attacks, while China and the United States discussed options to rein in Pyongyang…
‘And then they exploded’: How Rohingya insurgents built support for assault
YANGON (Reuters) – When the former U.N. chief Kofi Annan wrapped up his year-long probe into Myanmar’s troubled northwest on Aug. 24, he publicly warned that an excessive army response to violence would only make a simmering conflict between Rohingya i…
Merkel tells voters: ‘don’t experiment’ with the left
BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel warned German voters on Wednesday not to risk allowing an untested left-wing alliance to take power after this month’s national election, urging them to stick with her in “turbulent times”.
After year of ‘repression’ in Bahrain, West remains silent, Amnesty says
DUBAI (Reuters) – Bahrain’s government has crushed dissent and violently cracked down on protests in the past year, Amnesty International said on Thursday, and it accused Britain and the United States in particular of turning a blind eye to its abuses….
Hurricane Irma lashes Caribbean islands; Florida braces for hit
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – Hurricane Irma, one of the most powerful Atlantic storms in a century, howled past Puerto Rico on Wednesday after thrashing several smaller Caribbean islands with tree-snapping winds, drenching rains and pounding surf …
