Ukraine PM scrapes through crisis but uncertainty remains
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk has scraped through the biggest challenge to his leadership so far, lawmakers said on Wednesday, but still faces an uphill battle to achieve reforms that Western backers demand.
Trudeau defends focus on gender equality at U.N. women summit
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – World leaders should do more to promote women’s leadership in politics, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday, putting Canada further under the global spotlight as a champion of gender equality…
Kerry speaks with Russian counterpart ahead of Moscow visit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke to his Russian counterpart on Wednesday ahead of his upcoming trip to Moscow, a call expected to touch on the 5-year-old conflict in Syria and the cessation of hostilities there, the State…
‘Losing our land like losing our lives’, Brazil activist tells World Bank
TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Investors describe it as one of the last frontiers for major agricultural expansion – a vast area in Brazil’s poor northeast that the government is eager to open up to investors hoping to set up big new soy farms …
Russia flies out almost half Syria strike force: Reuters analysis
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Just under half of Russia’s fixed-wing strike force based in Syria has flown out of the country in the past two days, according to a Reuters calculation which suggests the Kremlin is accelerating its partial withdrawal.
Women forced to trade sex for land rights, global research finds
WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – One in five people worldwide report having paid a bribe for land, with rates even higher in sub-Saharan Africa where women say they are forced to trade sex for property rights, according to research by a top gl…
‘In’ leads by 2 percentage points ahead of Britain’s EU referendum: ICM poll
(Reuters) – Support for Britain to stay in the European Union stood at 43 percent, ahead of support for a withdrawal from the 28-member bloc, which stood at 41 percent, an opinion poll by ICM suggested on Thursday, ahead of a referendum on June 23.
Turkey’s Erdogan pushes parliament to make praise of violent acts a ‘terror crime’
ANKARA (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan pressed Turkey’s parliament on Wednesday to broaden an anti-terrorism law without delay, saying those who support killers of innocent people were no different from terrorists themselves.
Syrian Kurdish forces detain pro-government militiamen: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian Kurdish internal security forces arrested 60 members of a pro-Syrian government militia in the northeastern city of Qamishli on Wednesday, before releasing most of them, a war monitor said.
Italy rescues 2,400 boat migrants, finds three corpses
ROME (Reuters) – More than 2,400 migrants have been rescued from boats in the Strait of Sicily in the last two days and emergency services recovered three corpses, Italy’s coast guard said on Wednesday.
