Pakistan PM orders ‘blasphemous’ content be removed from social media
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday ordered that “blasphemous” content on social media websites be removed or blocked and those posting such material “strictly punished.”
South Africa’s Gordhan confident welfare benefits to be paid April 1
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – South Africa’s Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Tuesday he was “fairly confident” social security payments will be paid on April 1 despite a service-provider dispute that has cast doubt over the welfare benefits.
Water reaches pumping station in Syrian city of Aleppo: state TV
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Water has reached a pumping station inside Aleppo and will “soon” go out to residential districts in the city, Syrian state media said on Tuesday.
Purported Boko Haram video shows execution of alleged Nigerian spies
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Islamist militant sect Boko Haram on Tuesday released a video purporting to show the execution of three men the group accused of being Nigerian military spies.
South Sudan, African Union stalling on human rights court: U.N.
GENEVA (Reuters) – The African Union and South Sudan are failing in their joint responsibility to set up a court to prosecute atrocities in the central African country and are not cooperating with a United Nations inquiry, a U.N. investigator said on T…
Netanyahu and wife testify in libel suit against Israeli journalist
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife testified in court on Tuesday that a journalist had invented a story that Sara Netanyahu once ordered her husband out of their car during a row.
Kenya doctors end three-month strike after deal with government
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan doctors ended a three-month strike in public hospitals on Tuesday after reaching agreement on pay and working conditions, ending a standoff that threatened to embarrass the government before August’s elections.
Moscow moves to absorb rebel Georgian region’s military
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday ordered his officials to seal an agreement which will, in effect, incorporate the armed forces of Georgia’s breakaway South Ossetia region into the Russian military’s command structure.
One dead, three missing in Sikorsky helicopter crash off Irish coast
DUBLIN (Reuters) – One person died and three were missing after a Sikorsky S-92 helicopter crashed off the coast of Ireland during a rescue operation, the Irish Coast Guard said on Tuesday.
Turkey’s Erdogan warns Dutch, minister floats economic sanctions
ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday warned the Netherlands that he could take further steps in a deepening diplomatic row, while a government spokesman in Ankara said economic sanctions could be coming.
