Brazil’s largest party not bolting Rousseff government
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian Vice President Michel Temer, a key ally of embattled President Dilma Rousseff, might end his role managing her unwieldy coalition in Congress but he is not planning to leave her government, members of his party said on Fr…
Teen’s killing highlights crime wave in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone
FREETOWN (Reuters) – Senior ministers and U.N. officials joined hundreds of women in a beachfront, candlelit protest in Sierra Leone’s capital as the killing of a 17-year-old girl highlighted a rise in violent crime in a country ravaged by Ebola.
Nearly all India’s Muslim women reject ‘triple talaq’, polygamy, survey finds
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More than 90 percent of Muslim women surveyed in India want the “triple talaq” divorce ritual and polygamy banned from family civil law in the country, a study by a women’s rights organization said on Friday.
Israel says kills Palestinian rocket crew in Syrian Golan
AMMAN/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli said its forces killed at least five Palestinian militants in an air strike on the Syrian Golan Heights on Friday after cross-border rocket fire from there prompted the heaviest Israeli bombardment since Syria’s civi…
U.S., allies target Islamic State with 33 air strikes in Syria, Iraq: statement
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and its partners launched 33 air strikes on Thursday against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, the Combined Joint Task Force leading the operations said.
Test of Islamic State mortar fragments shows chemical arms traces: U.S. general
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fragments from mortars fired by Islamic State militants at Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq earlier this month tested positive in a U.S. military field test for the chemical weapons agent sulfur mustard, a U.S. general said on F…
U.N. calls for end to impunity for crimes in Darfur, Sudan
GENEVA (Reuters) – Sudanese police and security forces have shot, killed and abducted civilians in Darfur with near-total impunity, the United Nations said on Friday in a report also documenting crimes committed by rebels last year in the remote wester…
Far left splits from Tsipras as Greece heads to elections
ATHENS (Reuters) – Rebels opposed to Greece’s international bailout walked out of the leftist Syriza party on Friday, formalising a split after its leader Alexis Tsipras resigned as prime minister and paved the way for early elections.
With tear gas and razor wire, Macedonia tries to stem refugee tide
GEVGELIJA, Macedonia/IDOMENI, Greece (Reuters) – Macedonian police fired tear gas and stun grenades to drive migrants and refugees back from its southern border from Greece on Friday but crowds continued to build up at a new bottleneck in an increasing…
Migrants seeking new routes to Britain, Eurotunnel says
LONDON (Reuters) – Migrants are looking for new routes to Britain after security at the French end of the Channel Tunnel was stepped up, Eurotunnel said on Friday after migrants were found on a freight train heading for the tunnel from the French railw…
