Gunmen captured, killed by Burundi army in clashes in north: governor
BUJUMBURA (Reuters) – Burundi’s army has captured scores of gunmen and killed others in two days of clashes in the north, a regional governor said on Sunday, the latest flare-up of violence in a nation that emerged from civil war in 2005.
Israel frees Palestinian hunger striker from jail
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Israel on Sunday released an Islamic Jihad leader, Khader Adnan, from jail following a deal last month in which he agreed to end a 56-day hunger strike, Islamic Jihad sources in the West Bank said.
More than 150 Poles hospitalized after taking drug: police
WARSAW (Reuters) – More than 150 people have been hospitalized after taking a drug called “strongman” in southern Poland, police said on Sunday.
Kurdish militants to attack dam sites, saying Turkey violated ceasefire
ANKARA (Reuters) – Kurdish militants will attack Turkey’s dam construction sites in the mainly Kurdish southeast, the group said in a statement late on Saturday, another blow to a fragile peace process meant to end a three-decade insurgency.
Tanzania’s ruling party picks works minister for presidential race
DODOMA (Reuters) – Tanzania’s ruling party on Sunday named Works Minister John Magufuli as its candidate for this year’s presidential race, a move that means he will most likely become the next president of the east African nation.
After slavery, trafficked fishermen face lonely road to recovery
PHNOM PENH (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When hundreds of fishermen were rescued from a life of slavery on Thai fishing boats off the coast of Indonesia earlier this year, the world took notice.
France says ‘decision time’ has come in Iran nuclear talks
VIENNA (Reuters) – France’s foreign minister appeared to put pressure on the United States and Iran on Saturday to speed up nuclear talks, saying all issues were now on the table and that the time had come to make a decision.
Uighurs ‘on way to jihad’ returned to China in hoods
BEIJING (Reuters) – Some of the Uighurs deported to China last week from Thailand had planned to go to Syria and Iraq to carry out jihad, state television said, showing pictures of them being bundled out of an aircraft with black hoods over their heads…
Islamist rebel handed over to Uganda from Tanzania: army spokesman
KAMPALA (Reuters) – A Ugandan Islamist rebel leader accused of heading a group that has killed hundreds of people has been handed over to Uganda after being extradited from Tanzania, an army spokesman said.
Eight pensioners killed in fire at Spanish care home
MADRID (Reuters) – Eight elderly people died in a fire that ripped through a care home near Zaragoza in northeastern Spain in the early hours of Sunday, a government official said.
