Ex-Guantanamo prisoners suspected of rejoining militants increases: U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of former Guantanamo Bay prison inmates who are suspected of having returned to fighting for militants doubled to 12 in the six months through January, the Obama administration said on Monday.
Scandal-plagued Chinese province says it’s turned over new leaf
BEIJING (Reuters) – A corruption purge connected to disgraced former public security chief Zhou Yongkang has been highly effective and officials have turned over a new leaf, the top official in China’s scandal-ridden southwestern province of Sichuan sa…
Philippine court shakes up election race by allowing Poe to run
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippine Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a senator who spent much of her life in the United States is eligible to run for president, reversing a decision by the election commission and putting her in line to reclaim her pos…
Three kidnapped aid workers in east Congo released: U.N
KINSHASA (Reuters) – Three Congolese employees of charity Save the Children who were kidnapped in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo last week have been released, a U.N. official said on Tuesday.
Benin PM Zinsou to face run-off in presidential election
COTONOU (Reuters) – Benin’s Prime Minister Lionel Zinsou gained 28.4 percent of votes in a presidential election and will face a run-off against prominent businessman Patrice Talon, results from the national electoral commission showed on Tuesday.
China’s foreign minister says not looking to supplant U.S.
BEIJING (Reuters) – China is not looking to supplant the United States or become another United States, China’s foreign minister said on Tuesday, suggesting Americans should look at China’s 5,000 years of history to see how things will develop.
Somali Islamists confirm U.S. strike, say casualties exaggerated
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somali Islamist group al Shabaab confirmed on Tuesday that the United States had bombed an area it controlled but said the U.S. figure of more than 150 casualties was an exaggeration.
Female farmers in 90 nations face discriminatory land laws
TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Women in more than 90 countries still lack equal rights to own land, hurting food production and efforts to tackle poverty, Rwanda’s former agriculture minister said.
Brutal rapes of girl and mother haunt Central African Republic psychologist
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Psychologist Agnès George has worked with more than a thousand victims of sexual violence in war-torn Central African Republic, but the brutal gang rape of a ten-year-old girl and her mother stands out as the health professional’s most harrowing case.
Answers elusive for team investigating Malaysia’s missing MH370
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Two years after Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared, answers remain elusive with international investigators yet to arrive at a conclusion over what happened to the jet.
