India’s Modi battles opposition to key land reform
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Opposition parties boycotted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s latest attempt to build consensus around a business-friendly land bill on Wednesday, boding badly for his ambitious agenda of economic reform in a parliament session that…
Child marriage accepted in Brazil to escape abuse at home: researchers
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Child marriage is widely accepted in Brazil, where girls seek older husbands to escape from sexual and other violence in the home, or because of teenage pregnancies or the lack of job opportunities, according to ne…
Turkish PM talks peace, not coalition, with Kurdish party
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s prime minister called on Wednesday for new efforts to advance a Kurdish peace process, but his talks with an opposition party that helped foster the fragile peace confirmed there was little prospect they could form a coaliti…
‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz’ found guilty by German court
LUENEBURG, Germany (Reuters) – A 94-year-old German man who worked as a bookkeeper at Auschwitz was sentenced to four years in prison for his role in the murder of 300,000 people at the death camp, in what could be one of the last big Holocaust trials….
Mexico shows security footage of Guzman moments before he disappeared into tunnel
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s government on Tuesday broadcast security camera footage of fugitive drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in the final moments before he escaped from a maximum security prison through a tunnel in his cell on Saturday nigh…
Missiles fall off British warplane during Cyprus landing
NICOSIA (Reuters) – Two missiles fell off a British warplane as it was landing at the Royal Air Base in Cyprus on Wednesday, a base spokesman said.
Ukraine, rebels report deadliest fighting in over a month
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine on Wednesday reported some of the strongest attacks by pro-Russian rebels since the signing of a peace deal in February, with eight government soldiers killed in the past 24 hours.
Message in name of Taliban’s Mullah Omar favors Afghan peace process
KABUL (Reuters) – A message purportedly from reclusive Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar on Wednesday appeared for the first time to signal approval for peace talks with the Afghan government, a week after milestone meetings between the two si…
U.S. delivers Iraqi antiquities seized in raid on Islamic State
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The United States handed back to Iraq on Wednesday antiquities it said it had seized in a raid on Islamic State fighters in Syria, saying the haul was proof the militants were funding their war by smuggling ancient treasures.
Its glory faded, decaying modern Rome ‘needs a miracle’
ROME (Reuters) – Dirty and disorganized, Rome is once more in decline.
