Thousands of Myanmar’s Suu Kyi supporters stage huge pre-election rally
YANGON (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of red-clad supporters gave Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi a rock-star reception, cheering and dancing as she addressed crowds in the country’s largest city before an historic election next Sunday.
Romanian club fire death toll rises to 29, thousands march
BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Two young Romanian women died of severe burns in hospital on Sunday after having been rescued from the fire at a Bucharest nightclub on Friday, doctors said, raising the death toll to 29.
Thousands protest utility prices in Morocco’s Tangier
TANGIER, Morocco (Reuters) – Thousands took to the streets in Morocco’s northern city of Tangier late on Saturday to protest over high prices for water and electricity, in the nation’s largest protest since pro-democracy marches in 2011 demanding polit…
Two soldiers, 11 suspected Boko Haram fighters killed in Chad attacks
N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – At least two soldiers and 11 militants were killed on Sunday in suspected Boko Haram attacks on two remote military posts in the Lake Chad area, Chad’s government and military sources said.
Six infants drown as migrant boat capsizes off Greek island
ATHENS (Reuters) – Eleven migrants including six infants drowned when their boat capsized off the Greek island of Samos, trapping most of them in the cabin, the coast guard said on Sunday.
Pope hints Central African Republic visit could be canceled
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis indicated on Sunday that his planned visit to the Central African Republic this month could be canceled if violence between Christians and Muslims there worsens.
Egypt bars scores of Egyptians from traveling -Human Rights Watch
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt has increasingly used unlawful means to prevent citizens from traveling outside the country over the past year, a report from Human Rights Watch said on Sunday, another sign of the government’s tightening grip on political oppos…
Islamist al Shabaab attacks Somali hotel, kill at least 13
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Security forces in the Somali capital fought for several hours on Sunday before clearing a hotel of Islamist al Shabaab gunmen who had stormed the building after two bombs ripped into it, police and witnesses said. At least 13 peo…
Kurdish forces prepare for battle to retake Iraq’s Sinjar
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Kurdish forces are massing in northwest Iraq for an offensive to retake the town of Sinjar from Islamic State militants who overran it more than a year ago, killing and enslaving thousands of its Yazidi residents and triggering …
Exit now, pay later: Germany’s rushed farewell to nuclear power
FRANKFURT/BERLIN (Reuters) – When Chancellor Angela Merkel called up the boss of Germany’s biggest power producer RWE two days after the first explosion at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant, there was no mention of a u-turn in her energy policy.
