Congo rights group urges attorney general to investigate costly passports
DAKAR (Reuters) – A Congolese rights group has written to the attorney general to demand a criminal investigation into a Reuters report that most of the money from fees for printing new passports goes overseas.
Italy prosecutor says rescue boats in contact with people smugglers
ROME (Reuters) – An Italian prosecutor has evidence of phone calls between Libyan people smugglers and aid groups operating rescue boats, he told newspaper La Stampa, amid growing criticism of non-governmental groups saving refugees off the Libyan coas…
Russia hacked Danish defense for two years, minister tells newspaper
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Russia has hacked the Danish defense and gained access to employees’ emails in 2015 and 2016, NATO member Denmark’s defense minister told newspaper Berlingske on Sunday.
Gunmen wound celebrated conservationist Gallmann in Kenya
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Gunmen wounded Italian-born conservationist Kuki Gallmann at her conservation park on Sunday in the latest of a string of attacks during land invasions in drought-stricken northern Kenya, which residents say are intensifying as Augu…
Big catch-up for Merkel’s party in most populous German state: poll
BERLIN (Reuters) – Support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives has risen to its highest level in two years in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, albeit on a par with its main opposition, a poll showed on Sunday.
Holidays, burka bans, Brexit vote – UK parties set out election stalls
LONDON (Reuters) – More holidays, a burka ban and an end to hard Brexit – just some of the policies Britain’s opposition parties hope will prevent an overwhelming election victory by Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May in June.
Few clues on casualties at site of huge U.S. bomb in Afghanistan
ACHIN DISTRICT, Afghanistan (Reuters) – The remote site in eastern Afghanistan where the U.S. military dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb ever deployed in combat earlier this month bears signs of the weapon’s power, but little evidence of how much ma…
Hundreds flee Mosul fighting as others return to former IS areas
(This April 23 story was corrected to clarify source for number of displaced people)
German foreign minister to press Israel for two-state solution
BERLIN (Reuters) – Deep and “unbreakable” ties between Germany and Israel are part of Germany’s national identity and pillars of its foreign policy, but Berlin will continue to press for a two-state solution, Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Sun…
American member of watchdog OSCE killed in Ukraine
(Reuters) – An American paramedic working for European security watchdog OSCE’s monitoring mission in eastern Ukraine was killed and two others were injured on Sunday when their vehicle struck a mine, triggering a U.S. call for a transparent, timely in…
