Sierra Leone court acquits 13 soldiers accused of mutiny
FREETOWN (Reuters) – A military court in Sierra Leone has acquitted 13 soldiers accused of plotting to seize and kill President Ernest Bai Koroma in 2013.
More than 200 feared dead in sinking of migrant boat
PALERMO, Sicily (Reuters) – Hopes faded of finding more survivors on Thursday from a shipwreck in which 200 migrants are feared drowned, as rescue ships were called to the aid of more migrant boats in the same area of the Mediterranean.
U.N. says to convene more Libya peace talks August 10
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations will convene a new round of talks in Geneva on Aug. 10 aimed at ending the conflict and political crisis in Libya, the U.N. mission in Libya said on Thursday.
Syria’s Western-backed opposition due in Moscow next week: source
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The main Western-backed Syrian opposition, long distrustful of Russia over its backing of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, is due to visit Moscow next week amid a renewed diplomatic push to settle the conflict, a source and Russian …
Remains of two Japanese climbers on Matterhorn identified after 45 years
GENEVA (Reuters) – The remains of two young Japanese climbers missing on the Matterhorn mountain since a 1970 snow storm in the Swiss Alps have been identified through DNA testing of their relatives, police said on Thursday.
Twelve feared killed in Pakistani air ambulance helicopter crash
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – A Pakistani military helicopter being used as an air ambulance crashed near the northern district of Mansehra on Thursday, and the 12 people on board were feared dead, military officials said.
Puntland seeks resources as Somali militants enter its territory
GAROWE (Reuters) – Somalia’s Puntland region needs more help from the central government and the African Union to fight al Shabaab militants, especially equipment and ammunition, the president of the semi-autonomous region has said.
South African president defends failure to arrest Sudan’s Bashir
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – South African President Jacob Zuma defended the decision to let Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir evade an arrest warrant and leave the country in June, saying on Thursday the wanted leader had had immunity as a guest of th…
‘Men need more sex than women’ so decriminalize UK sex trade, academic says
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Decriminalizing prostitution in Britain could reduce levels of rape and sexual assaults on women, a think tank said on Thursday, which described attempts to control the sex trade as ineffective and a waste of publi…
U.S. think tank: risk Iran might ‘sanitize’ Parchin before U.N. checks
VIENNA (Reuters) – A U.S. think tank says Iran might be cleaning up its Parchin military site, where some countries suspect experiments may have taken place in a possible atomic weapons program, but Iran denied this on Thursday.
