Chinese police take away, detain 50 after protests in Beijing, Guangdong
BEIJING (Reuters) – Police in China’s capital and in southern Guangdong have detained or taken away more than 50 people after two separate protests, police and state news agency Xinhua said.
Key China paper calls Hong Kong election people’s ‘ardent expectation’
BEIJING (Reuters) – The 2017 election for Hong Kong’s chief executive is the “ardent expectation” of the Chinese territory’s people and the only way for it to make progress on achieving democracy, a top China newspaper said on Saturday.
Iran president views nuclear deal as start of new relationship with world
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Iran’s president said on Friday that a framework for a nuclear deal was just the first step toward building a new relationship with the world, after Iranians greeted the announcement of the accord with celebrations in the s…
Kenya university death toll seen rising; anger over security failures
GARISSA, Kenya (Reuters) – The death toll in an assault by Somali militants on a Kenyan university is likely to climb above 147, a government source and media said on Friday, as anger grew among local residents over what they say as a government failur…
Fleeing Boko Haram kill seven in attack on village in Chad
N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Fighters from Nigeria’s Boko Haram insurgency fleeing an offensive by soldiers from Chad and Niger launched a rare attack on Chadian soil, killing seven people, security sources said on Friday.
After Iraqi forces take Tikrit, a wave of looting and lynching
TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) – On April 1, the city of Tikrit was liberated from the extremist group Islamic State. The Shi’ite-led central government and allied militias, after a month-long battle, had expelled the barbarous Sunni radicals.
Iranians celebrate, Obama hails ‘historic’ nuclear framework
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Iran’s president said on Friday that a framework for a nuclear deal was just the first step toward building a new relationship with the world, after Iranians greeted the announcement of the accord with celebrations in the s…
Yemeni fighters repel Houthis in Aden after arms drop
ADEN (Reuters) – Fighters loyal to Yemen’s president pushed Houthi fighters back from central Aden on Friday after they were reinforced with weapons parachuted into their beleaguered section of the southern port city by Saudi-led warplanes.
Boko Haram, ‘Islam’s worst enemy,’ will be beaten: Niger president
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Reuters) – Militant group Boko Haram is “the worst enemy of Islam” and will be defeated because West African Muslims reject its violent actions and harsh interpretation of the Koran, Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou said on Friday…
On Good Friday, Pope decries persecution of Christians
ROME (Reuters) – Pope Francis presided at two Good Friday services, praying for persecuted Christians a day after Islamist militants attacked a university in Kenya, killing at least 147 people.
