Talks with Boko Haram reopened, government not involved: activist
ABUJA (Reuters) – Fresh negotiations have started with Boko Haram militants for the release of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped last year but the Nigerian government is not currently involved in the talks, a human rights activist said on Friday.
Al Shabaab says it attacked two hotels in Somali capital
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia’s al Shabaab Islamist militant group said it attacked two hotels in the capital Mogadishu on Friday evening.
Islamic State fighters attack troops in Iraq’s Anbar province
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Islamic State militants attacked Iraqi security forces on Friday near the two main cities of the western province of Anbar, where authorities plan a counter-offensive against the hardline Sunni insurgents, tribal sources said.
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-…
