Bangladesh charges 13 over 2012 garment factory fire
DHAKA (Reuters) – A Bangladesh court on Thursday charged the owners of a garment factory and 11 staff with homicide in connection with the deaths of 112 workers in the country’s worst industrial blaze nearly three years ago.
Nordic, Baltic foreign ministers call on Russia to release Estonian, Ukrainians
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Nordic and Baltic foreign ministers, meeting in Copenhagen on Thursday, called on Russia to immediately release an Estonian policeman who they say was “abducted” from his country and jailed for 15 years in a case that violated in…
Street violence in Kiev dims prospects for peace effort in Ukraine’s east
KIEV (Reuters) – A spasm of street violence has driven home how hard it is going to be for Ukrainian President President Petro Poroshenko to rally national support behind an internationally-brokered deal to bring peace to the east of his country.
French soldier in Central African Republic accused of sexual abuse: U.N
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – A French soldier deployed to Central African Republic has been accused of sexually abusing a teenage girl in the latest in a series of misconduct allegations against peacekeeping forces there, the United Nations’ top human rights of…
Syria mired in conflict driven by foreign powers: UN
GENEVA (Reuters) – Syrians are caught between government bombardment of civilian areas and ruthless Islamist groups in a conflict increasingly driven by foreign powers and marked by the “spread of extremism”, U.N. war crimes investigators said on Thurs…
Roadside bomb kills four police in southeast Turkey
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Kurdish militants set off a roadside bomb that killed four Turkish police officers as they traveled in an armored vehicle in the southeast of the country on Thursday, officials said.
Roadside bomb kills four police in southeast Turkey
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Kurdish militants set off a roadside bomb that killed four Turkish police officers as they traveled in an armored vehicle in the southeast of the country on Thursday, officials said.
Uganda says 12 of its soldiers killed in Islamist attack in Somalia
KAMPALA (Reuters) – Twelve Ugandan soldiers who served as African Union peacekeepers were killed when militants attacked their base in Somalia this week, a Ugandan military spokesman said on Thursday.
Afghan forces ‘yet to regain control’ of symbolic southern district
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan forces are still battling for control of a symbolic district of southern Helmand province, the NATO forces commander told reporters, contradicting the defense ministry, after more than a week of intense fighting supported by U….
Spain’s Rajoy says general election likely on December 20
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain will probably hold national elections on December 20, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Thursday, leaving him less than four months to persuade Spaniards an economic recovery is good enough to warrant giving him a second ter…
