Ruling party set to win Mozambique polls despite anger over inequality
MAPUTO (Reuters) – Mozambique’s ruling Frelimo party and its presidential candidate look likely to win elections this week despite voters’ dissatisfaction with graft and inequality in one of Africa’s fastest growing economies that boasts abundant energ…
China detains scholar, bans books in crackdown on moderate voices
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has detained a prominent scholar who helped blind dissident Chen Guangcheng flee to the United States two years ago and has banned books by eight writers in an escalating crackdown on dissent.
Pistorius faces sentencing over girlfriend’s death
PRETORIA (Reuters) – Disgraced South African track star Oscar Pistorius arrived at the Pretoria High Court on Monday for a sentencing hearing that will determine whether he serves jail time for the negligent killing of his girlfriend, or walks out a fr…
Center-left PRG party threatens to quit French government
PARIS (Reuters) – The small center-left PRG (Radical Party of the Left) has threatened to quit France’s Socialist-led government unless a 2015 budget includes more concessions to a pressured middle class, putting at risk a fragile parliamentary majorit…
Did Israel’s ‘Hannibal directive’ lead to a war crime in Gaza?
KEREM SHALOM Israel/GAZA (Reuters) – The July-August war in Gaza drew international condemnation for a number of reasons, but one episode proved more deadly than any other: an Israeli air and artillery bombardment on Aug. 1 that killed 150 people in a …
U.S. raps Kyrgyzstan for proposed ‘gay propaganda’ law
ALMATY (Reuters) – The United States has condemned Kyrgyzstan for planning to adopt legislation to ban “gay propaganda”, saying the law discriminates and will hurt the Central Asian nation’s fragile civil society.
Why Britain is still losing its fight against radicalization
LONDON (Reuters) – Mizanur Rahman laughs when he recalls the de-radicalization program he was sent on in 2008 after he was released from a British jail where he had served two years for inciting violence against British and American troops.
At least 30 die in Egypt bus crash: security sources
CAIRO (Reuters) – At least thirty people died in a bus crash in southern Egypt early on Monday, security sources said.
North Korean state media warn talks with the South in danger
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s state media said on Saturday that expected talks with the South to try to improve ties between the rivals were in danger of being canceled because authorities in Seoul allowed a group to send leaflets hostile to Pyongyan…
Australia PM says will confront Putin at G20 over downed flight MH17 ‘murders’
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Monday that he would use an upcoming G20 leaders summit to confront Russian President Vladimir Putin over the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 and the “murder” of Australian citiz…
