Four sentenced to death in Tanzania for killing albino teenager
DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Four men, including a witchdoctor, were sentenced to death by Tanzania’s High Court on Wednesday after being found guilty of abducting, killing and dismembering a 17-year-old albino boy.
‘Secular Jewish feminist’ Klein rallies Vatican faithful for climate action
ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – It wasn’t an invitation she expected, but Canadian environmentalist Naomi Klein – a self-styled secular Jewish feminist – was happy to address Vatican officials on Wednesday after Pope Francis enlisted her for a camp…
Discovery brightens solar’s future, energy costs to be cut
ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Scientists in Switzerland announced a clean-energy breakthrough on Wednesday; a cheaper, solar technology that splits water molecules to create clean-burning hydrogen fuel.
Ivory Coast reinforces border security after Mali attacks
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Ivory Coast has reinforced security along its northern frontier after recent attacks just across the border in Mali blamed on Islamist insurgents, a government spokesman said on Wednesday.
Italian police arrest North Africa cell and five suspected Islamic State supporters
MILAN, Italy (Reuters) – Italian police said on Wednesday they had arrested two people in Rome suspected of plotting attacks in Italy and North Africa, and five others in Italy and Albania who were planning to join hardline militant group Islamic State…
Talk of Syria action may be Erdogan’s latest gambit to pressure the West
ANKARA (Reuters) – Alarmed by Syrian Kurds’ advances against Islamic State, and irked by Western reluctance to tackle Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, President Tayyip Erdogan has once again raised the prospect of a Turkish military intervention in Sy…
Nicholas Winton, the ‘British Schindler,’ dies aged 106
LONDON (Reuters) – A man who became known as the “British Schindler” for saving hundreds of Czech children from Nazi persecution in the run-up to World War Two, has died at the age of 106.
Bookkeeper of Auschwitz says he can only ask God for forgiveness
LUENEBURG, Germany (Reuters) – A former bookkeeper at Auschwitz who is accused of assisting in the mass murder of at least 300,000 people told a German court on Wednesday he could only ask God to forgive him as he was not entitled to ask this of victim…
Syrian Kurds say thwart big Islamic State attack on border town
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A Syrian Kurdish militia said it had recovered full control of the border town of Tel Abyad on Wednesday after Islamic State fighters raided its outskirts the day before in preparation for a larger assault.
Turkish parliament elects ruling party MP speaker, reducing hopes for grand coalition
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s parliament voted along party lines on Wednesday to elect as its speaker Ismet Yilmaz, Defence Minister from the ruling AK Party, reducing prospects of a grand coalition between the assembly’s two biggest parties.
