Nigeria exchanges 82 Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram for prisoners
ABUJA/MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Boko Haram militants have released 82 schoolgirls out of a group of more than 200 whom they kidnapped from the northeastern town of Chibok three years ago in exchange for prisoners, the presidency said on Saturday.
Roses in hand, Venezuelan women protesters face security forces
CARACAS (Reuters) – Dressed in white and chanting “Liberty!”, tens of thousands of women opposed to Venezuela’s socialist President Nicolas Maduro marched on Saturday, proffering roses to security forces who blocked their way.
‘Mother’ should not be used to describe a bomb, Pope says
MILAN (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Saturday criticized the naming of the U.S. military’s biggest non-nuclear explosive as “the Mother of All Bombs”, saying the word “mother” should not be used in reference to a deadly weapon.
UK Conservative lead stays strong ahead of June election: Opinium poll
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minster Theresa May’s Conservative Party is still a strong 16 points ahead of the main opposition Labour Party ahead of a national election on June 8, according to a poll by Opinium on Saturday.
Flooding forces Mosul residents to flee war in rickety boats
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – The Iraqi man laid the body of his wife, wrapped in a black shroud, gently on the bow of a small wooden boat and held onto it as a second man rowed slowly to pick up the man’s three children standing a few meters away.
Several thousand Poles protest against right-wing ruling party
WARSAW (Reuters) – Several thousand people demonstrated in Warsaw on Saturday against Poland’s conservative, eurosceptic ruling party in an attempt by the opposition to build momentum ahead of next year’s municipal elections.
Egypt kills two suspected bomb-makers in shoot-out
CAIRO (Reuters) – Two armed men suspected of making bombs were killed in a shoot-out with Egyptian security forces in an area north of Cairo, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.
New airport in Pakistan’s capital to open in August : Prime Minister
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday said a new airport in Pakistan’s capital will be operational by mid-August, replacing the cramped Benazir Bhutto International Airport that was the butt of jokes for many travelers.
Nepali climber, 85, is second to die on Everest in a week
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – An 85-year-old Nepali man attempting to become the oldest to climb Mount Everest died at the base camp on Saturday, a hiking official said, the second climber to die in a week while preparing to climb the world’s highest mountain….
35 killed in school minibus crash in Tanzania
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Thirty-two schoolchildren, two teachers and a minibus driver where killed in Tanzania when their vehicle plunged into a roadside ravine in the northern tourist region of Arusha on Saturday, a senior police official said.
