Writer Esterhazy, postmodern chronicler of Hungary, dies at 66
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian writer Peter Esterhazy, whose postmodern novels chronicled life under communism and its aftermath, died on Thursday aged 66, weeks after publishing a book about his pancreatic cancer.
U.N. asks Saudi to show how coalition prevents Yemen child deaths
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pushed Saudi Arabia on Thursday to provide information on actions they are taking to prevent the killing and wounding of children in Yemen as Riyadh said it was conducting its military opera…
Russian spy service punishes trainee agents for showy public celebration
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s FSB security service said on Thursday it would punish dozens of new agents who celebrated graduating from the agency’s training academy by ostentatiously driving through Moscow in a luxury convoy allowing themselves to be ph…
Uganda troops in South Sudan to evacuate citizens after violence
JUBA (Reuters) – Uganda’s army began evacuating citizens from inside neighboring South Sudan on Thursday where fighting between forces loyal to the president and his rival has plunged the nation into its worst crisis since the end of a two-year civil w…
Global call to development banks: don’t fund projects that violate human rights
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – International development banks should ensure their investments do not violate human rights or risk the lives of the activists who defend them, a group of global campaigners said on Thursday.
Italy says up to 675 migrants died in April 2015 shipwreck
ROME (Reuters) – The remains of up to 675 victims have been recovered from a 2015 migrant shipwreck, Italy’s navy said on Thursday, as it concluded an operation to retrieve corpses from one of the worst disasters in the Mediterranean.
Refugees lead to record German immigration: statistics office
BERLIN (Reuters) – A record 2.14 million people moved to Germany last year, a 46 percent increase from 2014 after an influx of refugees, the Federal Statistics Office said on Thursday.
Russian court puts off preliminary hearing in Total CEO death case
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court postponed until Friday a preliminary hearing on the death of the ex-boss of French oil major Total who was killed when his jet collided with a snow plough in a Moscow airport.
U.S. launches quiet diplomacy to ease South China Sea tensions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is using quiet diplomacy to persuade the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam and other Asian nations not to move aggressively to capitalize on an international court ruling that denied China’s claims to the South Ch…
Exclusive: Zimbabweans suffer ‘savage’ police abuse as anti-Mugabe movement grows
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A 10-year-old girl knocked out by tear gas from a grenade thrown into her home. A disabled boy beaten and left unconscious at a bus-stop. A 17-year-old set upon by six police dogs.
