Justice elusive for slain aid workers on front lines of crises
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – It was a massacre that shocked the world’s humanitarian community.
FBI asked Macau billionaire if partner was Chinese agent: court records
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The FBI last year questioned a Macau billionaire charged with participating in a bribery scheme at the United Nations about whether one of his partners was involved with Chinese foreign intelligence, according to court records.
Turkey arrests novelist for ties to Kurdish militants: media
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A Turkish court arrested prize-winning novelist Asli Erdogan on Friday over alleged links to Kurdish militants, the Haberturk newspaper reported, three days after she and two dozen more staff from the pro-Kurdish Ozgur Gundem newsp…
Angolan president Dos Santos re-elected leader of ruling MPLA party
LUANDA (Reuters) – Angola’s long-ruling president Jose Eduardo dos Santos was overwhelmingly re-elected leader of the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) party on Friday, results showed.
Incendiary bombs dropped on hospital, Syrian rebel group says
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A Syrian army helicopter dropped incendiary “barrel bombs” on the only hospital in besieged, opposition-held Daraya early on Friday, putting it out of action, rebels and a war monitor said.
Putin flies into Crimea amid war games and tension
BELBEK AIR BASE, Crimea/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin flew into annexed Crimea on Friday a day after staging war games there, and said he hoped Ukraine would see “common sense” when it came to resolving a diplomatic crisis over the peninsula.
Libya’s jihadist challenge to last beyond Sirte defeat
SIRTE, Libya (Reuters) – The grand ambitions scrawled on a wall near the Libyan city of Sirte’s Mediterranean sea front look fanciful now: “Islamic State’s naval port, the departure point for Rome, with God’s permission.”
Three Syrian children drown when boat sinks off Libyan coast
ROME (Reuters) – Three Syrian children drowned along with three adults when a wooden boat trying to carry war refugees to Europe capsized off the coast of Libya, a humanitarian rescue group said on Friday.
Maduro says any Venezuela coup bid would meet tougher reaction than Turkey’s
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro said the purge by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan meted out on rivals after a failed coup would look like child’s play compared with the action he would take if opposition tried something simila…
Orthodox Jew stabbed in French city of Strasbourg
STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) – An Orthodox Jew was stabbed in the stomach in broad daylight in the French city of Strasbourg on Friday, local authorities said, by an attacker who several witnesses said shouted an Islamic religious phrase.
