Law alone cannot end child marriage in Tanzania: activist
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – An activist whose petition earlier this year triggered a Tanzanian high court ruling against child marriage said social transformation was needed to end the longstanding custom many families use as a “survival syst…
Mexico prepares contingency plan for U.S. election: Carstens
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico is readying a contingency plan for an “adverse” result in the U.S. presidential election, said Central Bank Governor Agustin Carstens, who has previously stated that a victory for Donald Trump would hit his country like a…
After Calais, France prepares to clear migrant camp in Paris
PARIS/CALAIS, France (Reuters) – French authorities prepared on Thursday to dismantle a makeshift migrant camp in central Paris, its numbers swelled by refugees from a larger settlement in Calais that was meanwhile shut down for good.
Violence and political pressure anger Nigeria’s Shi’ites
KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Blackened walls and piles of rubble are all that is left of the house of a leader of Nigeria’s Shi’ite minority after it was burned down by machete-wielding youths in the tense northern city of Kaduna.
Palestinian tries to stab soldier in West Bank, shot dead: army
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian who tried to stab a soldier near a settlement in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the military said.
Dozens of Afghan civilians, two U.S. service members killed in clashes in north
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Dozens of Afghan civilians were killed on Thursday in air strikes called in when U.S. and local troops came under heavy fire during an operation in the north of the country in which two American service members also died…
Myanmar to resume humanitarian aid to northern Rakhine: diplomats
SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) – Myanmar has agreed to allow aid to resume to the troubled north of Rakhine state and permit international observers to monitor whether help is reaching people displaced by violence, diplomats on a mission to the area told re…
Trusted allies in frame as Spain’s Rajoy prepares to name cabinet
MADRID (Reuters) – Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is expected to turn to trusted allies on Thursday when he names a cabinet that will need to make tough budget decisions and juggle the demands of other parties if his minority government is to survive.
France’s Sarkozy fires salvos at main party rival ahead of TV debate
PARIS (Reuters) – Nicolas Sarkozy accused his chief rival in the race for France’s center-right presidential ticket of selling out to left-wingers ahead of a television debate on Thursday evening in which the ex-president hopes to close the gap.
Iran commands 25,000 Shi’ite fighters in Syria: Israeli official
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Iran now commands a force of around 25,000 Shi’ite Muslim militants in Syria, mostly made up of recruits from Afghanistan and Pakistan, the former head of Israel’s domestic intelligence agency has told a visiting Swiss delegation….
