Protesting farmers in more than 1,500 tractors flood Paris streets
PARIS (Reuters) – Protesting French farmers converged on Paris in more than 1,500 tractors on Thursday to demand more government action to stem a crisis in the meat and dairy sectors that has left some farms near bankruptcy in the European Union’s top …
China, Vietnam agree to ‘properly handle’ disputes
BEIJING (Reuters) – The leaders of China and Vietnam agreed on Thursday to “properly handle” their disputes, China’s official Xinhua news agency reported, amid tension over a territorial spat in the South China Sea.
Congo militia chief tried to protect civilians, war crimes court told
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Lawyers for militia leader Bosco Ntaganda sought on Thursday to counter a portrayal of their client as cruel and bloodthirsty, saying he was a professional soldier who had tried to protect civilians from chaos and disorder in Cong…
China holds massive military parade, to cut troop levels by 300,000
BEIJING (Reuters) – President Xi Jinping announced on Thursday he would cut troop levels by 300,000 as China held its biggest display of military might in a parade to commemorate victory over Japan in World War Two, an event shunned by most Western lea…
Special Report: In Egypt, jailed Islamists ‘dying of neglect’
DAMIETTA, Egypt (Reuters) – Muslim Brotherhood lawmaker Mohammad al-Falahgi was arrested on terror charges in 2013 and held in prison, but never convicted. Earlier this year, after pleading for medical help, he died “handcuffed to the hospital bed,” ac…
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…
