China’s foreign minister to visit Moscow next week
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Russia from April 6-8 to discuss contacts between the two countries’ presidents, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
Israeli court tells army to re-route planned Bethlehem-area barrier
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s Supreme Court ordered the military on Thursday to draw up new routes for a planned section of Israel’s barrier in the occupied West Bank that had threatened to separate a monastery and convent of the same Catholic order.
Sri Lanka government unlikely to allow Dalai Lama visit-official
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lankan Buddhist monks have invited exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to make his first visit to the island, after a strongly pro-China government was voted out in January, but an official said Colombo was unlikely to allow it. 
China angered after U.S. fighter jets land in Taiwan
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Foreign Ministry expressed anger on Thursday after two U.S. fighter jets landed in Taiwan, in a rare official contact between the militaries of the United States and the self-ruled democratic island.
New Pakistani military courts sentence six to death
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s new military courts have sentenced six men to death for involvement in terrorism and a seventh to life imprisonment, the military spokesman said on Thursday.
British student who joined Islamic State wants to go home: Turkish MP
ANKARA (Reuters) – A 19-year-old British woman, one of a group of medical students that includes seven Britons, an American and a Canadian thought to have traveled to join the Islamic State group, has told her family she wants to go home, a Turkish law…
Iranian-British woman pardoned for Tehran volleyball protest
LONDON (Reuters) – An Iranian-British woman, jailed in Tehran last year for taking part in a protest against a ban on women attending some men’s sporting events, has been pardoned, Britain’s Foreign Office said on Thursday.
Buhari win means Nigeria, not Chad, to lead Boko Haram fight
DAKAR (Reuters) – When Chadian troops occupied parts of northern Nigeria in the 1980s, Nigerian Major-General Muhammadu Buhari chased them back across the border in a show of strength months before he seized power in a military coup.
West losing influence in Congo at political crossroads
KINSHASA (Reuters) – The expiry of Congolese President Joseph Kabila’s second mandate next year, a crucial test of governance, risks exposing the limitations of Western donors trying to promote democracy and transparency in return for the billions they…
France’s Le Pen angry at father for defending ‘gas chamber’ comment
PARIS (Reuters) – Tensions between French National Front leader Marine Le Pen and her father Jean-Marie worsened on Thursday as the 86-year-old founder of the far-right party defended having described Nazi gas chambers as a “detail of history”.
