Colombia confronts femicide, the ‘most extreme form of violence against women’
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Colombia’s new law on femicide is a key step to combat violence against women, but forensic experts and prosecutors will need to change the way they investigate gender-related killings to win convictions, officials…
Tanzanian gang rape film helps village women halt sexual abuse
PANGANI, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Aisha, an ambitious young businesswoman living in the city, returns to her home village for her younger sister’s wedding and re-connects with her past, meeting family and friends.
The flying marshal: North Korea builds private runways for plane-loving Kim
SEOUL (Reuters) – His father was afraid to fly, but North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has taken to the skies, building a series of small runways long enough to land light, private aircraft next to some of his palaces, satellite imagery shows.
Brazil Senate passes austerity bill in win for Rousseff
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s Senate approved a bill to roll back payroll tax breaks on Wednesday that is a key measure in President Dilma Rousseff’s efforts to reduce a gaping fiscal deficit and restore confidence in her government’s accounts.
Peru uncovers more victims of conflict with Shining Path from 1985
LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian authorities said on Wednesday that they had uncovered five graves in a remote highland region that likely hold the remains of some 60 people killed in 1985 during Peru’s bloody battle against the Shining Path rebel group.
U.S. proposes United Nations arms embargo on South Sudan
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States proposed on Wednesday implementing a United Nations arms embargo on South Sudan and further targeted sanctions from Sept. 6 unless President Salva Kiir signs a peace deal to end the country’s 20-month confli…
Eight soldiers killed, Istanbul palace attacked as Turkish unrest mounts
ISTANBUL/DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Gunmen fired on police outside an Istanbul palace and a bomb killed eight soldiers in the southeast on Wednesday, heightening a sense of crisis as Turkey’s leaders struggled to form a new government.
The flying marshal: North Korea builds private runways for plane-loving Kim
SEOUL (Reuters) – His father was afraid to fly, but North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has taken to the skies, building a series of small runways long enough to land light, private aircraft next to some of his palaces, satellite imagery shows.
U.N. says air strikes on Yemen port could worsen aid crisis
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – United Nations aid chief Stephen O’Brien said on Wednesday that air strikes by Saudi-led coalition airplanes on Yemen’s Red Sea port of Hodeida were unacceptable and could worsen the country’s humanitarian crisis.
Ties with Pakistan tense as Afghanistan celebrates independence
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan and Pakistan have summoned each other’s ambassadors to explain fighting between the two countries’ security forces that killed up to 11 border guards, with the tensions marring independence day celebrations in Kabul.
