Kabore wins Burkina Faso presidential election
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Roch Marc Kabore was proclaimed the winner of the presidential election in Burkina Faso and will become the country’s first new leader in decades, the Independent National Electoral Commission said on Tuesday.
TV anchor seeks to be Cambodia’s political peacemaker to avoid conflict
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Cambodian TV news anchor Soy Sopheap has again stepped into the role of political peacemaker in an effort to end the feud between Prime Minister Hun Sen and exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy which threatens to ignite political …
Spain’s Rajoy stays away as candidates hold election debate
MADRID (Reuters) – Three of the candidates vying to become Spain’s next prime minister clashed over the economy, corruption and Catalan independence in an election debate on Monday but a fourth, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, stayed away.
Myanmar’s HIV patients shunned despite progress in treatment
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Shortly after Cho’s husband passed away at his parent’s home his family called to tell her he had died of AIDS and said she should get tested.
With climate at ‘breaking point’, leaders urge breakthrough in Paris
PARIS (Reuters) – World leaders launched an ambitious attempt on Monday to hold back rising temperatures, with the United States and China leading calls for the climate summit in Paris to mark a decisive turn in the fight against global warming.
Iraq blames Iran after thousands of pilgrims storm border crossing
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s interior ministry blamed Iranian authorities on Monday for allowing tens of thousands of Shi’ite Muslim pilgrims to storm a border crossing and enter the country without visas, in a rare public confrontation between the two n…
Boko Haram expanding, chance to stop it is now: U.N. official
GENEVA (Reuters) – West Africa’s Boko Haram Islamist militant group is expanding and there is only a small window of opportunity to stop it, the top U.N. aid official in Cameroon said on Monday.
White House: Russia has intensified strikes on Islamic State in Syria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said on Monday it has seen “some intensification” of Russian air strikes against Islamic State in Syria during the past several weeks.
Philippine court to rule if U.S. Marine guilty of murder
MANILA (Reuters) – A court in the Philippines will decide on Tuesday whether a U.S. Marine is guilty of murder in the killing of a transgender woman, a case that has reignited debate over the American military presence in the poor Southeast Asian count…
U.S. Embassy warns of imminent attack in Kabul
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Embassy in Kabul warned on Monday of an imminent attack in the Afghan capital, saying it had received credible reports of a threat within the next two days, although it had no other details.
