UK voters shift slightly towards staying in EU: ORB poll
LONDON (Reuters) – Support among Britons for staying in the European Union has increased slightly since last month giving the “In” campaign a narrow lead ahead of a June referendum, an ORB poll for the Independent said on Thursday.
Serbian radical politician Seselj acquitted of war crimes
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – U.N. judges on Thursday acquitted Serbian firebrand politician Vojislav Seselj of all the counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity he faced, delivering a boost to his Serbian Radical Party ahead of an election in April.
Congo starts trial of soldiers accused of sexual abuse in Central African Republic
KINSHASA (Reuters) – Twenty soldiers from Democratic Republic of Congo went on trial this week for alleged rape and other crimes committed while serving as U.N. peacekeepers in neighboring Central African Republic, the Congolese government said on Thur…
Australia’s colonial past haunts major Sydney tram project
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Aboriginal Australians demanded a halt on a A$2.1 billion ($1.6 billion) tram construction project in Sydney after excavators found 20,000 objects potentially linked to one of the country’s first conflicts between its original inhabi…
Iraqi forces advance towards western town held by Islamic State
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s counter-terrorism forces backed by army troops and U.S.-led coalition air strikes advanced towards the western town of Hit on Thursday in an attempt to dislodge Islamic State militants, the military said.
One dead, dozens wounded in wave of bombs in south Thailand
PATTANI, Thailand (Reuters) – Several bombs have gone off in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued south killing one person and wounding dozens in a new wave of violence, the military said on Thursday.
Suicide bomber strikes while hugging official in Somalia’s Puntland
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – An Islamist militant suicide bomber put his arms around a local official as if in a hug and blew both of them up in the autonomous Somali region of Puntland on Thursday, officials said.
Turkish military accuses media of damaging morale, launches legal action
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – The Turkish military said on Thursday it had launched legal action against unspecified media outlets over reports it said were damaging morale, as Turkey faces an almost unprecedented combination of national security threats.
South Korea prostitutes decry court ruling, demand right to work
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean activist prostitutes said on Thursday they would appeal to the United Nations to win back their right to work after the Constitutional Court rejected a petition to overturn a law that punishes sex workers.
Hungarian Nobel laureate and Auschwitz survivor Kertesz dies aged 86
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian novelist and Auschwitz survivor Imre Kertesz, winner of the 2002 Nobel Literature Prize, died on Thursday at the age of 86 after a long illness, the state news agency MTI reported, citing his publisher.
