Syria truce offers glimpses of normality
AMMAN (Reuters) – In the devastated Syrian city of Aleppo, children are outside playing and many people are going to the shops safely for the first time in months thanks to a partial halt to the war that is providing relief even if most doubt that peac…
French Airbus plane narrowly avoids collision with drone
PARIS (Reuters) – An Air France Airbus A320 jet narrowly avoided colliding with a drone while descending for an approach to Paris Charles de Gaulle airport last month, the French aviation investigation agency BEA said.
Questions grow about Zika’s risk to future pregnancy
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Few women have competed in the Olympics while pregnant, but the suspicion that the Zika virus in mothers is causing birth defects is central to calculations by athletes and others planning travel to Brazil in August for the summ…
Got a problem? Try Cambodia PM’s ministry of Facebook
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Unable to pay his way out of jail, Kong Chamroeun was remanded in a Cambodian prison pending trial for stealing $80 of company property, a crime his family said he did not commit.
Kerry meets U.N. envoy for Libya, repeats support for unity government
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met on Thursday with Martin Kobler, the U.N. secretary-general’s special representative for Libya, to discuss efforts to support a unified Libyan government, the State Department said.
U.N. registered 99 sex crime allegations against its staff in 2015
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – There were 99 new allegations of sexual exploitation or sexual abuse against United Nations staff members across the U.N. system last year, a sharp increase from the 80 allegations in 2014, according to a new U.N. report.
Brazilian prosecutors question Samarco dam burst settlement
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian prosecutors on Thursday criticized a deal that mining company Samarco reached earlier this week with the federal government to pay an estimated 20 billion reais ($5.27 billion)in damages for a deadly dam spill in November…
Environmental and indigenous rights leader murdered in Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – An environmental rights activist known for her fight to stop hydroelectric plants and mines from encroaching on indigenous lands was shot dead early on Thursday in Honduras, prompting hundreds of students to protest in the capit…
EU to give Greece May deadline to register migrants: Avramopoulos
BERLIN (Reuters) – Europe will set Greece a deadline of May 12 to register all migrants in an orderly fashion or face more border controls, Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos told a German newspaper on Friday.
New Jamaica prime minister sworn in, vowing to reverse austerity
KINGSTON (Reuters) – Jamaica’s new prime minister, Andrew Holness, was sworn in on Thursday after a narrow general election win, vowing to increase growth and cut taxes in a reversal of the previous government’s austerity program.
