Colombia expands land restitution to war-torn south amid peace efforts
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Colombia is expanding its land restitution program into former no-go areas in the country’s war-torn south aiming to return land stolen from farmers by illegal armed groups, the government has said as peace talks a…
Suicide bomber kills at least 70 at Pakistan hospital, IS claims responsibility
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – A suicide bomber in Pakistan killed at least 70 people and wounded more than 100 on Monday in an attack on mourners gathered at a hospital in the southwestern city of Quetta, and Islamic State and a Taliban faction claimed …
U.S. urges Russia to halt Syria sieges; Russia slams aid politicization
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council must not allow civilians on both sides of the Syrian city of Aleppo to be cut off from humanitarian aid, the United States said on Monday as Russia accused Washington of politicizing a huma…
U.S. calls for release of four Chinese human rights activists
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States called on China on Monday to release four human rights lawyers and activists who were convicted of subversion last week.
Indian cold pills pour over remote border to fuel Myanmar narcotics boom
TAMU, Myanmar (Reuters) – Five years ago, when cold pills first trickled across Myanmar’s untamed border with India, many local officials were baffled. Where was this medicine going, and why were smugglers so interested in it?
Holy cows and Hindu crusaders cloud Modi’s Indian reform drive
AGRA, India (Reuters) – Two miles down the road from the white marble walls of the fabled Taj Mahal, a heavyset man crouches in the dirt of a cow shed and explains how the future of India belongs to him.
French ruling Socialist party says Hinkley Point doubts must be cleared up
PARIS (Reuters) – The ruling Socialist Party of French President Francois Hollande said on Monday the Hinkley Point nuclear project in Britain is a risk to the survival of state-owned utility EDF and that all doubts about the project must be cleared up…
Syrian hospital bombing death toll rises to 13: medical charity
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Monday that 13 people including children had died in the bombing of a hospital in northwestern Syria, describing the weekend attack as an “outrage” which vio…
Chinese tourist mistakenly ends up as refugee in Germany
BERLIN (Reuters) – A Chinese tourist who tried to report a stolen wallet during a visit to Germany unwittingly signed an asylum application that got him stranded as a refugee for two weeks in the country’s burgeoning asylum bureaucracy.
Germany, Netherlands to test joint missile defense operations for possible eastern deployment
COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) – Germany and the Netherlands will in October test joint operations of their Patriot air and missile defense systems in what could be a model for multilateral deployments to Poland or the Baltic states in coming years, a top …
