South African police clash with students at tuition fee protest
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African police fired tear gas in clashes with students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday and arsonists torched a building at another campus overnight as protests over tuition costs spread.
Italian officials support each other in lonely stand against mafia
POLISTENA, Italy (Reuters) – Benedetto Zoccola wore a wiretap to put a mob boss in jail. To pay him back, the mafia planted a small bomb on the window sill of his office last year.
Spain’s regional rift makes third election more likely
GUERNICA, Spain (Reuters) – At the back of a council building in the Spanish town of Guernica, people take photos of each other in front of an oak sapling, a direct descendent of sacred trees under whose branches village elders held assemblies in medie…
Jets pound Aleppo’s rebel-held areas, defying U.S.
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Warplanes mounted the heaviest air strikes in months against rebel-held districts of the city of Aleppo overnight, rebel officials and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday.
Philippines’ Duterte invites ‘devil’ U.N. chief, EU to debate rights
MANILA (Reuters) – Firebrand Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday invited U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the European Union to investigate his deadly anti-drugs crackdown, after hurling insults at them for interfering in it.
Violent past revisited as Afghanistan initials accord with notorious warlord
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan officials initialed a peace deal on Thursday with a party led by one of the country’s most notorious Islamist warlords, a move that inspired both hope and fear as it dredged up tension dating back decades.
Oxford ranked world’s top university, just as Brexit looms
LONDON (Reuters) – The University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world and feeder for the British elite, has topped a global education ranking for the first time, but its vice-chancellor warned that Brexit could damage its lon…
Bangladesh finds 18 bodies after ferry capsizes
DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladeshi rescue workers have recovered 18 bodies since an overcrowded ferry capsized on Wednesday under the weight of a collapsing river bank, police said on Thursday.
Hungary PM says EU should deport all illegal migrants: website
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s Prime Minister said the European Union should round up and deport all illegal immigrants and assemble them in EU-supervised refugee camps beyond the bloc’s borders where they can then file for asylum.
Planned Serb referendum vote reawakens fears of strife in Bosnia
SARAJEVO/BANJA LUKA, Bosnia (Reuters) – Bosnia’s autonomous Serb entity is set to defy its highest court with a referendum on a national holiday on Sunday that may stoke separatist sentiment lingering since the 1990s war.
