Faced with Boko Haram, Cameroon weighs death penalty for terrorism
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Lawmakers in Cameroon, which is battling to stop the advance of Nigerian Boko Haram militants on its territory, will vote in the coming days on whether to impose the death penalty on those found guilty of involvement in acts of terr…
ICC judges give prosecutors a week to strengthen or drop Kenyatta case
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Judges at the International Criminal Court on Wednesday rejected prosecutors’ attempts to have the trial against Kenya’s president adjourned until they had enough evidence and set a week deadline to proceed or withdraw the charges…
Kenyan unions urge non-Muslim workers to leave north after attacks
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan trade unions have urged non-Muslim public sector workers including teachers and doctors to leave the country’s lawless northern region, site of two deadly attacks by militants in the past two weeks, because of the security ri…
Iraq says woman detained in Lebanon is not Baghdadi wife
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s Interior Ministry said on Wednesday that a woman detained by Lebanese authorities was not the wife of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but the sister of a man convicted of bombings in southern Iraq.
Jewish-Arab school attack scars Jerusalem’s troubled co-existence
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Hand in Hand school in Jerusalem presents an almost too-perfect scene in a tense and divided city, where Jews and Arabs do daily business but rarely befriend one other.
Israel’s Netanyahu asks for ‘clear mandate’ in early election
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appealed on Wednesday for a “clear mandate” from voters in the early election he called, with opinion polls showing the right-wing leader on track for a fourth term.
Topless Salvini woos Italy’s voters from bedroom
ROME (Reuters) – Matteo Salvini, the 41-year-old leader of the anti-euro Northern League party, chose a bare-chested, bedroom photoshoot in a weekly magazine on Wednesday to underline his status as the newest sensation in Italian politics.
Turkish MPs pass bill shaking up judiciary, boosting police powers
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s government has pushed through legislation increasing police search powers and reforming courts in a move one senior judge said threatened to erode the judicial culture of the country.
Afghanistan says 760,000 refugees risk deportation from Iran
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan will send a delegation to Iran to ask the government to extend temporary visas to allow 760,000 Afghan refugees who have no documents and risk deportation to stay on for at least a year, an Afghan government spokesman said…
Russia says ‘gross violations’ in Moldova elections
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday there had been “gross violations” of election rules during the campaign for the Nov. 30 parliamentary election in Moldova and on voting day.
