Nigeria’s Buhari orders probe of 38 people, firms over arms deals
ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to probe 38 former military chiefs, officers and companies for alleged arms procurement fraud, a presidency statement said on Friday.
Fire blocks truck access to one side of Brazil’s Santos port
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Trucks carrying commodities and other exports were unable to reach the Guaruja side of Brazil’s largest Port of Santos on Friday, a day after containers holding chemicals caught fire and sent poisonous gases into the sky.
European rights body ‘deeply concerned’ at Danish migrant rule reforms
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Europe’s human rights and democracy body said on Friday it was “deeply concerned” at proposed changes to Danish immigration laws that make it harder for migrants to stay in Denmark.
Dozens feared exposed as Sierra Leone confirms new Ebola case
FREETOWN (Reuters) – A woman who died of Ebola this week in Sierra Leone potentially exposed at least 27 other people to the disease, according to an aid agency report on Friday, raising the risk of more cases just as the deadliest epidemic on record a…
French identify another Paris attacker via DNA from body parts
PARIS (Reuters) – French investigators have confirmed that Belgian-Moroccan Chakib Akrouh, who blew himself up when trapped by police on Nov. 18, was the third member of the three-man unit that killed dozens of cafe-goers during a multipronged Islamist…
U.N. reports gang-rapes, mass graves in Burundi
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations has documented cases of Burundi’s security forces gang-raping women during searches of opposition supporters’ houses and heard witness testimony of mass graves, U.N. human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said on…
Chinese official expresses concern over missing Hong Kong bookseller
HONG KONG (Reuters) – A Hong Kong-based Chinese official expressed concern on Friday at the disappearance of one of five missing people linked to a local publisher of books critical of Beijing’s leadership but warned investigations were “complicated”.
Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric urges end to militancy after Diyala attacks
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, on Friday urged the government to prevent militant attacks and condemned bombings claimed by Islamic State and retaliatory assaults this week on Sunni mosques in the provinc…
Don’t bash Commission too much, EU’s Juncker tells Renzi
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Italy is wrong to bash the European Commission, the head of the EU executive said on Friday, in an attempt to quell Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s increasing criticism of EU policies on migration, banking and the budget.
On election eve, Taiwan frontrunner says she seeks peace with China
TAIPEI/BEIJING (Reuters) – Taiwan presidential frontrunner Tsai Ing-wen sought to reassure she’d seek peaceful relations with China if she won Saturday’s election, as Beijing again warned the self-ruled island against any moves toward independence.
