India, top sterilizer of women, needs new contraceptive ideas
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Eighty-five percent of India’s family planning budget is used to promote and conduct sterilizations on women, the head of a prominent charity said on Friday, calling for more funds to be channeled towards provid…
Mexico says U.S. sent extradition request for Guzman in June
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s government received an extradition request from the United States for Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman a couple of weeks before the drug lord’s escape from prison last Saturday, a government spokesman said on Friday.
Iran: Nuclear deal is new chance for regional cooperation
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran, embarking on a diplomatic offensive in the wake of its nuclear deal with world powers, told fellow Muslim countries on Friday it hoped the historic accord could pave the way for more cooperation in the Middle East and internatio…
Nigerian megachurch faces prosecution over guesthouse collapse
LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigerian authorities said they would sue a megachurch run by one of Africa’s best known preachers, TB Joshua, for negligence after its guesthouse collapsed last year, killing 115 worshippers, most of them South Africans.
Overwhelming majority of U.S. women don’t regret abortion: study
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More than 95 percent of women surveyed in a new U.S. study said they didn’t regret having an abortion and felt that the procedure was the right decision for them.
Niger army kills 30 suspected Boko Haram insurgents: sources
NIAMEY (Reuters) – Niger’s army killed at least 30 suspected Boko Haram fighters as it searched for militants in villages just over the border with Nigeria, security sources said.
Did the U.N. financing for development conference deliver?
ADDIS ABABA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A major United Nations summit to finance ambitious global development goals, from giving free education to all to dealing with climate change, fell short of developing countries’ expectations with few aid pled…
Serbia cautions ethnic kin in Bosnia against court referendum
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbia urged Serbs in neighboring Bosnia on Friday to think again before holding a referendum on the authority of the national court, a vote the West says would challenge the integrity of the Bosnian state.
Kerry: ‘very, very hopeful’ Iran will release detained Americans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday he raised the topic of detained Americans at every meeting he held with Iranians during the final weeks of nuclear negotiations and said he is hopeful Tehran would release them.
Suicide bombers kill nine at Muslim prayers: Nigerian army
DAMATURU, Nigeria (Reuters) – Two suicide bombers, an elderly woman and a 10-year-old girl, killed at least nine people in the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu on Friday morning as worshippers gathered to mark the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday, a mi…
