Four teachers among six Israeli-Arabs charged for promoting Islamic State
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s Shin Bet undercover internal security agency and police said on Monday they had arrested and charged six Arab citizens, including four school teachers, with supporting and spreading the ideology of Islamic State.
800 million still hungry and poor despite progress of millennium goals: U.N.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – About 800 million people still live in dire poverty and suffer from hunger despite the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) being the most successful anti-poverty push in history, the U.N. said on Mon…
Oil palm plantations destroying SE Asia’s peatlands: researchers
BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Drainage of peatlands to cultivate oil palm in Malaysia’s Rajang Delta is causing land subsidence that will bring large-scale floods in coming decades, making the land unusable, a problem also expected to affect…
Iranian nuclear deal set to make hardline Revolutionary Guards richer
VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have done very well out of international sanctions — and if a nuclear deal is done in Vienna this week under which those sanctions are lifted, they are likely to do better still.
Cash urged for schools in crisis zones as refugee numbers surge
OSLO (Reuters) – Cash for educating children caught up in disasters, ranging from the war in Syria to the earthquake in Nepal, needs to rise sharply to cope with a surge in the number of young refugees, a U.N. envoy said on Monday.
Inside the Saudi prison that’s home to new wave of jihadis
RIYADH (Reuters) – The man visible on the block’s control room monitor, pacing his small cell in uniform grey robe, is one of a rising number of security prisoners in Saudi Arabia, where the wars in Syria and Iraq have led to a surge in domestic jihadi…
Tanzania jails former finance, mining ministers over gold deal
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – A Tanzanian court sentenced two former ministers to three years in jail on Monday over corruption charges related to the award of a gold audit tender, according to court documents.
Armenian protesters call for evening rally after police remove barricades
YEREVAN (Reuters) – Armenian protest leaders called for a rally on Monday evening in the capital Yerevan after police briefly arrested dozens of protesters and removed barricades following two weeks of demonstrations over electricity prices.
Burundi coup general says force only way to oust president
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – A Burundian general who backed a failed coup in May threatened to launch an armed uprising after President Pierre Nkurunziza refused to bow to opposition and international demands to abandon a bid for a third term.
Chile president’s approval rating hits record low: poll
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chilean President Michelle Bachelet’s approval rating fell to a record low in June after a month of political shakeups and protests, an opinion poll showed Monday.
