America’s Crow Indians face death to put affairs in order
CROW AGENCY, Montana (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A team of law students which recently descended on the Crow Indian Reservation in the American West to help tribal members write property wills, were cautioned in advance by their professors to be cul…
Bill Gates to donate chickens to Africa’s poor
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Bill Gates is launching his latest scheme to help sub-Saharan Africans living in extreme poverty: he’s giving them chickens.
In Greek camps, wait for asylum fuels unrest
ATHENS (Reuters) – Tents were set on fire, punches were thrown, children cried through the night and families were forced to flee the burning detention camp and sleep in open fields.
From welfare to barmaids’ cleavages: UK views on EU not always accurate, poll finds
LONDON (Reuters) – Voters’ ideas of the impact of the European Union on life in Britain are mistaken in many areas, from the level of immigration to non-existent rules over barmaids’ cleavages, according to a survey published on Thursday.
No definitive answer in probe of $81 million Bangladesh cyber heist: FBI
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is working quickly to figure out who perpetrated the cyber heist of $81 million from Bangladesh Bank’s account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in February, but there are no definitiv…
Second specialist vessel to join EgyptAir search on Friday
PARIS (Reuters) – A second ship equipped with specialist search devices will join the hunt for the “black box” flight recorders and the wreckage of an EgyptAir jet on Friday, the head of France’s air-accident investigation agency said on Thursday.
Cambodian Khmer Rouge cadre says Westerners ‘burnt to ashes’ on his watch
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – The first member of Cambodia’s notorious Khmer Rouge regime jailed for the 1970s “Killing Fields” atrocities admitted on Thursday brutally murdering four unidentified Westerners and burning their bodies with piles of tyres.
Exclusive: U.S. may turn to Canada for help with new NATO force in east Europe
BRUSSELS/WARSAW (Reuters) – The United States could turn to Canada to help it establish a new NATO force in eastern Europe as a deterrent against Russia because it is struggling to win support from its European allies, diplomats say.
Green shoe brand helps Ethiopia walk tall on global stage
BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Brightly colored shoes, boots and sandals, handmade in Ethiopia, nestle in tyres and wooden pallets hung with ropes on the white walls of this former butcher’s shop in Gràcia, a fashionably bohemian district of Barcelona.
Qatar summons U.S. envoy over video of soldiers laughing near flag
DOHA (Reuters) – Qatar, which hosts the largest U.S. air base in the Middle East, summoned the U.S. ambassador on Thursday over a video posted online that showed American soldiers laughing in front of the nation’s flag.
