Tunisian police fire tear gas at protesters demanding jobs
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian police firing tear gas clashed on Thursday with hundreds of youths who tossed rocks and petrol bombs in protests over jobs and a lack of development in a town in the country’s south, residents said.
Some 800 boat migrants rescued during break in weather: Italian coast guard
ROME (Reuters) – Some 800 migrants were plucked from flimsy rubber boats on Thursday, Italy’s coast guard said, as Libya-based people smugglers took advantage of a window of good mid-winter weather to send them to sea.
Rival of Libya’s U.N.-backed government claims control of Tripoli defense ministry
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – A self-declared prime minister sidelined by Libya’s U.N.-backed government said on Thursday he had retaken control of the defense ministry in the capital, Tripoli.
For Congo’s Pygmies, expulsion and forest clearance end a way of life
IDJWI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – On Idjwi, the largest island in Democratic Republic of Congo, a way of life is dying.
U.S. sanctions Syrian officials for chemical weapons attacks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday blacklisted 18 senior Syrian officials it said were connected to the country’s weapons of mass destruction program, after an international investigation found Syrian government forces were responsibl…
Europe erects defenses to counter Russia’s information war
BERLIN (Reuters) – Nations in Europe, where Germany and France this year hold elections, are erecting defenses to counter possible Russian cyber attacks and disinformation to sway Western politics, but intelligence experts say this might be too little …
Swedish government drops plans for gender quota bill for company boards
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s minority center-left government said on Thursday it would drop a planned bill forcing listed companies to increase the number of female board members which faced defeat after an opposition parliament majority formed again…
In Syria, a rebel fighter clears Islamic State minefields
MAREA, Syria (Reuters) – Ahmad Najjar stands in the middle of an Islamic State minefield in northern Syria holding torn camouflage rags that he said were from the clothing of a colleague recently blown up while dismantling explosives planted by the mil…
Trump, European populists are a threat to human rights: Human Rights Watch
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States and the rise of populist leaders in Europe poses a “profound threat” to human rights, U.S.-based Human Rights Watch warned on Thursday in its annual global report…
Nigerian lower house moves to offer Gambia’s Jammeh asylum, lawmakers say
ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s lower house voted on Thursday to offer Gambian President Yahya Jammeh asylum if he steps down, lawmakers said.
