African Union urges U.N. rights monitoring role in Western Sahara
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The head of the African Union has urged the United Nations to add human rights monitoring to the tasks of its peacekeeping mission in the disputed North African territory of Western Sahara.
Ahead of Britain’s election, Labour takes 2 percent point lead: YouGov poll
LONDON (Reuters) – Ahead of Britain’s May 7 election, the opposition Labour Party has taken a 2 percentage point lead over Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives, according to a YouGov poll for The Sun newspaper.
U.S. expedites arms shipments to coalition bombing Yemen
RIYADH/ADEN (Reuters) – The United States is speeding up arms supplies and bolstering intelligence sharing with a Saudi-led alliance bombing a militia aligned with Iran in neighboring Yemen, a senior U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday.
Scottish nationalists raise prospect of another independence vote after 2016
LONDON (Reuters) – Just a month before the most unpredictable British election in a generation, Scottish nationalist leader Nicola Sturgeon raised the prospect of another independence referendum after 2016 that could break apart the United Kingdom.
Lapsed tenders hurt Modi’s ‘Make in India’ defense industry push
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian firms have spurned some $15 billion worth of government tenders to make a range of weapons since 2013, Defense Ministry officials say, in a blow to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his drive to wean the country off imported…
Finland poll leader open to deal with eurosceptic populists
HELSINKI (Reuters) – The poll favorite to be Finland’s next premier says he is open to taking eurosceptic populists into any new governing coalition but expects they could cause difficulty with demands like an end to bailouts and kicking Greece out of …
Exhumation of Iraq’s Camp Speicher victim mass graves begins
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi forensic teams began on Monday excavating 12 suspected mass grave sites thought to hold the corpses of as many as 1,700 soldiers massacred last summer by Islamic State militants as they swept across northern Iraq.
Fire put out on Russian nuclear submarine in shipyard
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Firefighters have put out a blaze on a nuclear submarine which was undergoing repairs at a shipyard in Russia’s northern province of Arkhangelsk on Tuesday.
U.S.-led forces conduct 12 air strikes in Iraq, three in Syria: military
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S.-led forces targeted Islamic State militants with 12 air strikes in Iraq and three air strikes in Syria, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.
Ahead of election, UK doctors criticize Cameron over healthcare
LONDON (Reuters) – Over 100 senior British medical professionals criticized Prime Minister David Cameron and his coalition government on Tuesday for their handling of the National Health Service (NHS), a major issue in the upcoming national election.
