Kenyan schoolboys save girls from rape after learning ‘no means no’
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The schoolboy watched as a man tried to remove the nappy of a little girl he was dragging along a Nairobi riverbank, suspecting that he was going to rape her.
Netanyahu tells Israel’s Arabs he ‘regrets’ election-day rallying call
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he regretted offending Israel’s Arabs during a rallying call on election day last week that his critics had denounced as racist.
U.S., allies conduct 14 air strikes against Islamic State: task force
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and its coalition allies have staged eight air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria and six in Iraq since early on Sunday, the Combined Joint Task Force overseeing the operations said in a statement …
World’s first academy for humanitarian aid puts locals on the frontline
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Training 100,000 aid workers and volunteers in more than 50 countries as first responders to local disasters and conflicts could “revolutionize the aid sector”, the head of the world’s first academy for humanitaria…
South Syrian rebels say Assad foes are supplying more arms
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Mainstream rebels in southern Syria say foreign states have stepped up weapons supplies to them since Damascus launched an offensive early last month to regain the frontier zone near Jordan and Israel.
Punishment for Spain’s Rajoy in regional vote signals tough election year
MADRID (Reuters) – Voters in southern Spain dealt a blow to Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s hopes of winning a second term this year on the strength of the country’s economic recovery, abandoning his center-right Popular Party for upstarts and the oppos…
Yemen foes square off as fears of war, Saudi-Iran rivalry grow
RIYADH/DUBAI (Reuters) – Yemen’s top factions are squaring off for battle after months of skirmishes, turning respectively to neighboring Saudi Arabia and its regional rival Iran for help in what may become all-out war.
EU joins Arab states in seeking access for U.N. rights envoy to Gaza
GENEVA (Reuters) – The European Union (EU) joined Palestinian and Arab delegations on Monday in calling on Israel to allow a U.N. human rights investigator to visit Gaza, while the United States and Israel snubbed the debate.
Islamic State moves west to attack Syrian army in Homs: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamic State fighters attacked a military airport in Syria’s Homs province on Monday as they pressed a westward offensive against government strongholds, a monitoring group said.
Brazil opposition party not seeking impeachment: Cardoso
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s biggest opposition party has no interest in impeaching President Dilma Rousseff despite recent street demonstrations calling for her ouster, former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso told Reuters.
