Asylum seeker’s rape claims overshadow Australia’s bid for U.N. rights body
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s hardline immigration policies overshadowed the launch of its bid to join the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday, with the government and rights lawyers arguing bitterly over a pregnant Somali asylum-seeker who claims she…
Return of dollar black market shows limits of Myanmar reforms
YANGON (Reuters) – Banks in Myanmar bought hundreds of millions of dollars in the black market this year, banking sources said, in a resurgence of an unregulated trade that flourished under military rule and has raised fears among foreign investors of …
Canadians vent over voting delays, headaches on social media
VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Canadians turned to social media to complain about the difficulty of voting on Monday in the country’s closely fought federal election, which comes after the ruling Conservatives toughened rules around voter identification.
Pentagon says U.S. military personnel rammed gate of MSF hospital
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. military personnel rammed into the gate of a medical aid group’s hospital in Afghanistan last week to enter the grounds of the building hit in a U.S. air strike earlier this month, a Pentagon spokesman said on Monday.
Return of dollar black market shows limits of Myanmar reforms
YANGON (Reuters) – Banks in Myanmar bought hundreds of millions of dollars in the black market this year, banking sources said, in a resurgence of an unregulated trade that flourished under military rule and has raised fears among foreign investors of …
Swing to left puts Canada PM Harper at risk in close election
CALGARY/MONTREAL (Reuters) – Canadians looked set for political change on Monday as polls showed a strong prospect that Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government will be ousted, or reduced to a minority, amid a late surge by Liberal rival…
Syrian rebels say they receive more weapons for Aleppo battle
BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) – Rebels battling the Syrian army and its allies near Aleppo said on Monday they had received new supplies of U.S.-made anti-tank missiles from states opposed to President Bashar al-Assad since the start of a major government off…
Backlog of migrants swells in the Balkans, tempers fray
BERKASOVO, Serbia/LJUBLJANA (Reuters) – The Balkans struggled with a growing backlog of migrants on Monday after Hungary sealed its southern border and Slovenia tried to impose a limit, leaving thousands stranded on cold, rain-drenched borders where te…
Eritrean mistaken for gunman killed in Israeli bus station attack
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Eritrean migrant, shot by a security guard and kicked by an angry Israeli crowd that mistook him for a gunman, was identified on Monday as one of the dead from an attack on a bus station in the southern city of Beersheba.
Ivory Coast’s Ouattara to push for new constitution if re-elected
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said on Monday he would push for constitutional reform if he wins re-election this week to scrap a nationality clause that helped drag his West African nation into a decade-long crisis.
