Houthis swap prisoners with Saudi Arabia: spokesman
DOHA (Reuters) – Yemen’s Houthi movement said on Sunday it had exchanged prisoners with its foe Saudi Arabia as a first step toward ending a humanitarian crisis prompted by a year-long conflict that has killed at least 6,000 people.
Mexicans burn Donald Trump effigies in Easter ritual
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexicans celebrating an Easter ritual late on Saturday burnt effigies of U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump, whose anti-immigrant views have sparked outrage south of the American border.
Honduras arrests suspect in murder of environmental activist
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduras has arrested a suspect in the murder of an environmental rights activist and colleague of recently slain award-winning indigenous leader Berta Caceres, officials said on Sunday.
Brazil’s PMDB plans policies for new government if Rousseff is ousted: report
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) is already working on policies including sweeping welfare cuts should their coalition partner President Dilma Rousseff be impeached and it formed the new government, a newspaper said …
Pakistan blasphemy killer’s supporters clash with police near parliament
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Hundreds of hardline Muslim activists in Pakistan set fires near parliament and clashed with police on Sunday to protest the execution of a man they consider a hero for assassinating a governor over his criticism of harsh blasphem…
Iraq’s Sadr begins sit-in inside Green Zone to push for reforms
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Powerful Iraqi Shi’ite Muslim leader Moqtada al-Sadr entered Baghdad’s Green Zone, the heavily-fortified center of the capital housing government buildings and embassies, on Sunday to keep up pressure on the government to enact refo…
Migrants protest to be let through Greek-Macedonian border
ATHENS (Reuters) – Hundreds of migrants stranded at a makeshift Greek camp protested near the border with Macedonia on Sunday, demanding that the border be opened as they clung to hopes of making it into Europe despite new EU moves to send some refugee…
Ireland marks centenary of uprising that led to independence
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Thousands of members of Ireland’s armed forces marched through Dublin on Sunday to mark 100 years since the Easter 1916 uprising, the defining moment of an independence struggle that ended centuries of British rule five years later.
Use ‘weapons of love’ to fight evil of terrorism, pope says on Easter
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis urged the world in his Easter message on Sunday to use the “weapons of love” to combat the evil of “blind and brutal violence”, following the attacks in Brussels.
Iraqi Christians fear extinction, see no relief from Islamic State
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi Christians gathered in Baghdad this weekend to mark Easter but celebrations were tempered by fears Islamic State would eradicate their shrinking community, even as the army launched a U.S.-backed offensive to retake Mosul, the…
