Protesters throng London to oppose new UK government’s austerity plan
LONDON (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of anti-austerity protesters massed outside Britain’s parliament on Saturday to demonstrate against the newly re-elected Conservative government’s plans for further public spending cuts.
Malian rebel alliance signs peace deal with government
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Brazil’s Rousseff approval rating drops further, poll shows
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s popularity suffered a new blow in June, with just 10 percent of voters approving her government as unemployment rises and corruption allegations haunt key allies, a poll showed on Saturday.
U.N. expands refugee camp in Kenya as South Sudan conflict rages
KAKUMA, Kenya (Reuters) – Kakuma camp in northern Kenya is expanding by nearly a half, the U.N. refugee agency said on Saturday, to house refugees fleeing nearby South Sudan as hopes fade for peace in the world’s newest nation.
Jolie decries ‘explosion of suffering’ after visiting refugees in Turkey
MIDYAT, Turkey (Reuters) – Hollywood actress and director Angelina Jolie on Saturday described a spiraling global refugee crisis as an “explosion of human suffering” whose causes the international community refuses to confront.
Inaction on peace risks setting Israeli-Palestinian conflict ‘ablaze’: France
CAIRO (Reuters) – French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius warned Israel and the Palestinians on Saturday that the stalemate in the peace process risked setting the conflict “ablaze” and urged both sides to return to the negotiating table quickly.
Car bomb explodes in Yemen capital near mosque used by Houthis, two dead
SANAA (Reuters) – Islamic State group said it was behind a car bomb that exploded in Yemen’s capital Sanaa on Saturday near the Qiba al-Mahdi mosque, killing two people and wounding six others, witnesses and a security source told Reuters.
Venezuela says Brazil senators sought to destabilize the country
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s foreign ministry has accused a group of Brazilian senators of seeking to destabilize the country during a brief visit on Thursday and denied their safety was under threat.
German police arrest Al Jazeera journalist in Berlin: lawyer
BERLIN (Reuters) – A leading Al Jazeera journalist was arrested at a Berlin airport on Saturday at the request of Egypt, a lawyer for the Qatar-based satellite network said, a move he described as part of a crackdown by Cairo on the channel.
After midnight in the library, Putin sets out his world view
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – It was two minutes before midnight when Russian President Vladimir Putin finally entered the meeting room in the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, more than three hours late, to be interviewed by a dozen exhausted jo…
