More than one million flee, Ukraine close to ‘humanitarian catastrophe’
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More than one million people have been driven from their homes by the conflict in Ukraine, hampering aid efforts and leaving the country on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe, aid agencies said on Thursday.
Police investigating suspicious parcel at Madrid train station
MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish police were investigating a suspicious parcel found at Madrid’s Nuevos Ministerios local and metro line station, a police source told Reuters.
Cuba frees five more political prisoners, dissidents say
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba has freed five more detainees, dissidents said on Thursday, as Havana begins to release 53 people the United States considers political prisoners as part of an agreement aimed at ending decades of hostility between the two natio…
Two suspected Syria jihadists go on trial in Berlin
BERLIN (Reuters) – A 36-year-old German man and a 27-year-old Turkish citizen went on trial in Berlin on Thursday charged with membership of a foreign terror group in Syria.
Attacked satirical French weekly to print a million copies next week
PARIS (Reuters) – Undaunted by the gunning down of its leading cartoonists, the French weekly Charlie Hebdo plans to print a million copies next Wednesday, almost 30 times more than usual.
Nigeria’s Boko Haram killed more than 100 during weekend attack
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – At least 100 people were killed by Boko Haram militants in the northeastern Nigerian town of Baga at the weekend, the district head said on Thursday.
CAR fighters must embrace farming to end cycle of conflict: FAO official
ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A full-scale food crisis has been averted in Central African Republic following a bout of sectarian bloodletting, but unemployed young men will need jobs for peace to hold in the agriculture-dependent country, a U.N….
French magazine attack set to deepen Europe’s ‘culture war’
PARIS (Reuters) – A deadly attack on a French satirical magazine that lampooned Islam seems certain to fuel rising anti-immigration movements around Europe and inflame a “culture war” about the place of religion and ethnic identity in society.
EU offers 1.8 billion euros for Ukraine as Germany seeks reform
RIGA/BERLIN (Reuters) – The European Union proposed on Thursday offering an additional 1.8 billion euros ($2.1 billion) to help save Ukraine from bankruptcy as Kiev assured Germany it had credible plans to modernize.
Haiti political crisis stalls homebuilding for quake survivors
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Five years after an earthquake flattened much of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince and destroyed Guiyolette Fenfen’s home, the 29-year-old is still living in a tent, still dreading the next hurricane season.
