Security police kill four militants in operation in Kyrgyz capital
BISHKEK (Reuters) – Kyrgyzstan’s security police said they had killed four members of an “international terrorist organization” in a firefight near the center of the capital Bishkek on Thursday, underscoring continued volatility in the hard-up Central …
Rights experts call for U.N. to intervene in Burundi
GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council must intervene in Burundi to prevent mass atrocities and the risk of a regional conflict, seven independent U.N. human rights investigators said on Thursday.
Merkel mocked online over refugee girl’s tears
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel drew mockery online on Thursday for stroking the back of a Palestinian girl facing possible deportation after she had reduced her to tears by explaining her policy on asylum and adding that “sometimes …
A year after MH17 downed, families want justice
AMSTERDAM/HRABOVE, Ukraine (Reuters) – One by one, the names of the 298 passengers and crew who died aboard Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 will be read aloud by relatives on Friday, a year after the passenger jet was shot out of the sky over rebel-held …
China warns Manila over repairs to ship on Spratly reef outpost
BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Wednesday condemned the Philippines for doing repairs to a rusting ship it ran aground on a South China Sea reef, demanding Manila remove the vessel while adding that Beijing “reserved the right to take further measures”.
Explosion destroys vehicle in militant stronghold in Somalia
NAIROBI (Reuters) – A drone strike in south-central Somalia, a strategic stronghold of the Islamist group al Shabaab, destroyed a vehicle belonging to the militants in the early hours of Thursday, residents and officials said.
French Socialist chief gives German ‘friend’ history lesson
PARIS (Reuters) – Jean-Christophe Cambadelis, head of France’s ruling Socialists and a close ally of President Francois Hollande, issued an open letter to the German people on Thursday urging them to re-think their place in Europe.
South Africa’s Tutu fights infection in hospital: daughter
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Veteran South African anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu will remain in hospital for several more days to fight a persistent infection that is not related to his prostate cancer, his daughter Mpho said on Thursday.
New Irish law recognizes existence of transgender people
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Transgender people in Ireland have won legal recognition of their status through the passage of a law allowing them to change their legal gender with no medical or state intervention.
Exclusive: U.S. poised to upgrade Cuba in annual human trafficking report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is set to remove Cuba from the bottom tier on its list of worst human trafficking centers, U.S. sources said, in what will be another step in the historic rapprochement between the former Cold War foes.
