Clashes at Burundi funeral procession kill one, stoking tensions
NAIROBI (Reuters) – At least one man was killed and a dozen injured in clashes involving police and people in a bus who had been attending a funeral near Burundi’s capital, the police and witnesses said.
Marine Le Pen’s approval rating rises among French right-wing voters
PARIS (Reuters) – Far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s approval rating has risen among those voters who describe themselves as right wing, one month ahead of regional elections, a BVA institute survey showed.
Publisher of slain blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh
DHAKA (Reuters) – A publisher of a slain online critic of religious militancy was hacked to death on Saturday in the Bangladesh capital, police said, hours after similar attacks on two secular writers and another publisher in the majority-Muslim countr…
Congo polls must be delayed ‘2-4 years’: ruling coalition spokesman
LUBUMBASHI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo is not ready for a series of elections, including a presidential vote, scheduled over the next year and the voting calendar should be pushed back by up to four years, a r…
United Nations says two contractors detained in Yemen
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations said on Saturday two contractors with the world body had been detained in Yemen, but gave no further details on the incident.
11 killed as Pakistanis vote in local government polls
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – Eleven people were killed when rival political parties fired on each other on Saturday as Pakistanis voted in local elections seen as a referendum on the national government halfway through its term.
Two bomb blasts on Tanzania’s Zanzibar after disputed vote, no injuries
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Two bombs exploded minutes apart in the main city on Tanzania’s semi-autonomous Zanzibar archipelago on Saturday without causing casualties, police and witnesses said, adding to tensions on the islands after a disputed electio…
Vice president of Congo elections commission resigns
KINSHASA (Reuters) – The vice president of Democratic Republic of Congo’s election commission resigned on Saturday, a source at the presidency said, throwing the country’s troubled election process into further turmoil.
Rocket hits mosque in eastern Afghanistan, six killed
KABUL (Reuters) – A rocket apparently fired by fighters from the radical Islamic State movement has hit a mosque in eastern Afghanistan, killing six worshippers and wounding four others, a local official said on Saturday.
China sentences ‘cult’ leader to life in prison amid crackdown: Xinhua
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has sentenced the head of what it calls a cult to life in prison on charges including rape and fraud, state news agency Xinhua said on Saturday, continuing a crackdown on what it views as dangerous illegal movements.
