Progress for women and children in India health survey may offer global lessons
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Simple interventions such as using community workers to promote breast-feeding in villages have helped India improve the health of its women and children and could be good global examples, say aid workers, citin…
Thousands stranded as Indonesia’s Bali airport shut after volcanic eruption
DENPASAR, Indonesia (Reuters) – Nearly 20,000 passengers were left stranded on Friday at one of Indonesia’s busiest international airports on the resort island of Bali after it was forced to close because of a volcanic eruption, an airport official sai…
Yemen’s warring parties endorse truce from midnight as fighting rages
ADEN (Reuters) – Yemen’s main warring factions endorsed a U.N.-brokered humanitarian truce from midnight on Friday although heavy fighting on the ground and Saudi air strikes carried on relentlessly.
Vienna court acquits former Kazakh spy chief and guard of murder
VIENNA (Reuters) – Kazakhstan’s former spy chief and a presidential family guard were acquitted by an Austrian jury on Friday of double murder in a trial whose main suspect, the president’s former son-in-law, was found hanged in jail.
Bangladesh stampede kills 25 at charity handout
DHAKA (Reuters) – At least 25 people, mostly women and children, were killed and dozens were injured in a stampede in Bangladesh on Friday when hundreds of destitute people rushed for a clothing charity handout to mark the holy month of Ramadan, police…
Two shot dead in southern Germany; police arrest suspect
BERLIN (Reuters) – A gunman shot and killed two people in northern Bavaria on Friday and was later captured, German police said.
World’s poorest need $160 a year to end hunger: U.N.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Just $160 per year for each person living in extreme poverty would eradicate world hunger by 2030, the United Nations said on Friday, recommending the money should be delivered through both cash transfers and “pro-…
Sri Lanka’s defeated Rajapaksa to contest August 17 poll
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s war-time president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has signed nomination papers to fight an Aug. 17 election as part of a coalition led by President Maithripala Sirisena, Rajapaksa’s spokesman said on Friday.
Russia’s Putin upbeat on Ukraine crisis solution
UFA, Russia (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that there were more chances for Ukraine crisis to be successfully resolved rather than for it to fail.
Iraq’s Shi’ite militias target Falluja in Anbar campaign
ERBIL, Iraq/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iraqi Shi’ite militia fighters are tightening a noose around the Islamic State-held city of Falluja west of Baghdad as the first stage of a counter-offensive in the Sunni province of Anbar, likely to determine the cou…
