‘What lion?’ Zimbabweans ask, amid global Cecil circus
HARARE (Reuters) – As social media exploded with outrage this week at the killing of Cecil the lion, the untimely passing of the celebrated predator at the hands of an American dentist went largely unnoticed in the animal’s native Zimbabwe.
Reality TV hooks Tanzania as women win fame, fortune and farm tools
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – While sex, fights and confessionals draw viewers to most reality television shows, it’s the revolutionary portrayal of women as “heroes” that makes one in two Tanzanians watch a homegrown series aimed at raising t…
Calais migrants undaunted by extra French riot police
CALAIS, France (Reuters) – Migrants massed around the entrance to the Channel Tunnel said on Thursday they would keep trying to sneak across to Britain, undaunted by the arrival of 120 extra riot police on the French side.
U.S. to deliver eight F-16 aircraft to Egypt
CAIRO (Reuters) – The United States will deliver eight F-16 Block 52 aircraft to Egypt within the next two days, the U.S. embassy in Cairo said in a statement on Thursday, part of a military package that had been unfrozen earlier this year.
Political prisoners, Chinese loggers among thousands freed in Myanmar amnesty
YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar freed some political prisoners and 155 Chinese citizens jailed for illegal logging in an amnesty for nearly 7,000 people on Thursday, a move that could ease diplomatic tensions with influential neighbor China.
Shelling in eastern Ukraine kills four civilians, soldier
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists accused each other on Thursday of shelling civilian areas near the rebel-held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine despite a ceasefire, with four civilians and one soldier killed.
Germany’s Schaeuble wants to rebalance EU Commission’s role
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s finance minister wants to correct the balance between the European Commission’s political role and its regulatory powers, reflecting concern in Berlin over the EU executive’s neutrality as its political clout grows.
Israel’s secret-keeper seeks censorship reform
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Sima Vaknin-Gill may be Israel’s last chief military censor. And she makes no secret of welcoming that.
China, Russia to hold military drills in Sea of Japan
BEIJING (Reuters) – China and Russia will hold joint naval and air defense drills in the Sea of Japan, China said on Thursday, the latest exercises between the two countries which could concern Japan, involved in a marine dispute with China to the sout…
Ex-KGB agent’s radioactive poisoning may have harmed Londoners: inquiry
LONDON (Reuters) – An unknown number of Londoners might have been put at risk by the 2006 poisoning of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko with a radioactive isotope, which amounted to “a nuclear attack on the streets” of the British capital, an inquiry …
