China lodges protest with Japan over new text books
BEIJING (Reuters) – China said on Tuesday it had lodged a formal protest with Japan over new Japanese school text books which it said distorted the history of Japanese atrocities in China and reasserted a Japanese claim to a group of disputed islands.
Gunmen attack EU military mission HQ in Mali; one attacker killed
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Gunmen on Monday attacked a hotel in Mali’s capital, Bamako, that had been converted into the headquarters of a European Union military training operation, but there no casualties among the mission’s personnel.
From poetry-lover to genocide suspect, Karadzic faces verdict
SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Radovan Karadzic saw himself as locked in a David and Goliath struggle to save the Serbs even as their forces were reducing the besieged city of Sarajevo to rubble.
We can’t pay: Zimbabwe farmers resist compensating evicted white landowners
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s plan to win back international funding by paying compensation to white farmers forced off their land faces a major snag: the black farmers expected to stump up the cash say they don’t have it.
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi set to steer cabinet as minister
NAYPYITAW/YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar’s president-elect nominated Aung San Suu Kyi to join the incoming cabinet on Tuesday, giving the National League for Democracy (NLD) leader a formal role in the government that the constitution bars her from leading…
Bonded laborers in India brick kilns slowly learn they have rights
KARJAT, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Thousands of brick kiln workers in India’s western Maharashtra state are learning from activists that they have the right to a minimum wage, basic amenities and fair treatment – but remain in debt bondage to…
Obama spars with Cuba’s Castro over human rights in historic visit
HAVANA (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama pushed Cuba to improve human rights during his historic visit to the Communist-led island on Monday, publicly sparring with President Raul Castro who showed flashes of anger and hit back at U.S. “double st…
Congo ex-vice president guilty in landmark ICC war rape ruling
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo’s Jean-Pierre Bemba became the highest-ranking politician convicted by the international war crimes court on Monday, when it judged him responsible for a campaign of rape and murder in Central African …
Australia strikes threatening to choke Easter weekend air travel
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s Department of Immigration and Border Protection on Tuesday joined other public sector workers in a growing strike that threatens to paralyze air travel at the nation’s biggest international airports ahead of a holiday wee…
Syrian government refuses to discuss Assad’s future
GENEVA/BEIRUT (Reuters) – The fate of President Bashar al-Assad will play no part in talks to end the Syrian war, the head of the government’s delegation said, leading the U.N. peace envoy to warn that lack of progress on the issue could threaten a fra…
