Kenya demands U.N. removes massive Somali refugee camp
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya has given the United Nations three months to remove a camp housing more than half a million Somali refugees, as part of a get-tough response to the killing of 148 people by Somali gunmen at a Kenyan university.
Reuters Iraq bureau chief threatened, denounced over story
LONDON (Reuters) – The Baghdad bureau chief for Reuters has left Iraq after he was threatened on Facebook and denounced by a Shi’ite paramilitary group’s satellite news channel in reaction to a Reuters report last week that detailed lynching and lootin…
China to restrict visits by Shenzhen residents to Hong Kong: NPC deputy
HONG KONG (Reuters) – China will limit visits by residents of the southern city of Shenzhen to neighboring Hong Kong, local media and politicians said on Sunday, following recent tensions in the former British colony caused by growing numbers of mainla…
Father, brother, uncle arrested after Indian teen alleges years of rape
KOLKATA, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The father, uncle and brother of a 16-year-old girl in eastern India have been arrested accused of raping her repeatedly over a period of two years, police said on Saturday.
Afghan aid workers found dead; 100 students hospitalized after meal
KABUL (Reuters) – Authorities in western Afghanistan are investigating whether 100 schoolboys who were hospitalized on Saturday were poisoned, police said, a day after five aid workers kidnapped by the Taliban were found dead.
Supporters of Maldives ex-president hold underwater protest
MALE (Reuters) – Supporters of jailed former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed held an underwater protest on Saturday to push for the release of the tropical archipelago’s first democratically elected leader, after he was sentenced to 13 years in pris…
U.S., allies conduct air strikes in Syria and Iraq: U.S. military
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S.-led forces have targeted Islamic State militants with eight air strikes in Syria and nine in Iraq since early on Friday, the U.S. military said on Saturday.
Truck bomb wounds seven on Thai holiday island Koh Samui
BANGKOK (Reuters) – A truck bomb in an underground carpark wounded seven people on the Thai holiday island of Koh Samui on Friday night, in an incident which was likely to raise fears that Muslim rebels in the deep south could extend their campaign to …
Gunmen kill 20 sleeping laborers in Pakistan’s Baluchistan
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Gunmen attacked a Pakistani construction site and killed 20 laborers as they slept on Saturday, a government official said, in what appeared to be further violence by rebels seeking to control resources in gas- and mineral-…
ECB sees risks in Greece’s planned home foreclosure law
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s draft law to protect primary residences from foreclosures goes beyond protecting low-income debtors and could encourage strategic defaults, the European Central Bank said in a legal opinion on Saturday in a potential setback…
