U.N. rights investigator ‘shocked’ by latest Iran execution
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A U.N. human rights investigator on Monday expressed shock at Iran’s weekend execution of a 26-year-old woman convicted of murdering a man she accused of trying to rape her as a teenager, saying he had repeatedly voiced conce…
Toronto voters to replace disgraced mayor; but his brother is in the race
TORONTO (Reuters) – Toronto voters were set to replace their notorious mayor, Rob Ford, in Monday’s election after Ford dropped out of the race in September after being diagnosed with cancer, but his elder brother still has a shot at the city’s top job…
Jordan arrests influential al Qaeda scholar for ‘incitement’
AMMAN (Reuters) – Jordanian security forces arrested influential al Qaeda spiritual guide Abu Mohammad al Maqdisi on Monday on suspicion of fomenting terrorism on the Internet, security sources said.
Anglican leader troubled by Britain’s anti-immigration rhetoric
LONDON (Reuters) – The Archbishop of Canterbury, spiritual leader of the Anglican Church, said on Monday he had seen evidence of a rising tide of xenophobic sentiment within British communities and was worried by the tone of the country’s political deb…
Egypt must target neediest in food subsidy reforms: WFP
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s reform of its subsidized food system must do more to help the neediest if the government is to begin reducing “huge pockets of poverty”, the top World Food Programme official in the country said on Monday.
EU must prepare for Russia’s ‘hybrid warfare’: Danish formin
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Russia poses no direct military threat to the European Union but its intervention in Ukraine is a type of ‘hybrid warfare’ the bloc should fight using coordinated energy policy and media to counter “massive propaganda”, Denmark’s…
Rousseff’s rough victory augurs more divisive era in Brazil
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The turning point in President Dilma Rousseff’s re-election campaign came on the evening of Sept. 1, after a disastrous presidential debate at which she confessed to the audience that she was “nervous” and stumbled over several wo…
MH17 prosecutor open to theory another plane shot down airliner: Der Spiegel
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch prosecutors investigating the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 believe the aircraft might have been shot down from the air but that a ground-to-air missile attack is more likely, a senior prosecutor said in a German me…
Fighting erupts again in South Sudan; each side blames the other
JUBA (Reuters) – South Sudan government forces and rebel troops clashed in oil-rich Unity State on Monday, President Salva Kiir said, days before the two sides are to hold talks to end a 10-month conflict that has ravaged the world’s youngest nation.
Guns fall silent in Lebanon’s Tripoli as army moves in
TRIPOLI Lebanon (Reuters) – The Lebanese army took the last position held by Islamist militants in the northern city of Tripoli on Monday, ending two days of battles that marked some of the worst fighting to spill over into Lebanon from the Syrian civi…
