South Africa’s ANC talks left on land as unrest flares
DIEPSLOOT, South Africa (Reuters) – South Africa’s government has built close to 4 million houses for low-income families since the end of apartheid in 1994.
Woman killed in Albanian floods as rain and snow batter Balkans
SKOPJE (Reuters) – Floods killed a woman in Albania on Friday and Macedonia sent more troops to a waterlogged central area after fresh rains, while snow closed roads and cut power in Croatia, Bosnia and Slovenia.
British ‘severed heads’ jihadi jailed for 12 years
LONDON (Reuters) – A Briton who helped an Islamist group in Syria record videos of severed heads and then faked his own death in the hope of being able to return home undetected was sentenced to 12 years in jail on Friday.
Car bomber kills two, wounds around 20 in Libya’s Benghazi: medics
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – A jeep filled with explosives killed two people and wounded around 20 on Friday in Benghazi, Libya’s second biggest city that is a front line in the country’s bloody civil conflict, medics and military officials said.
Philippines Aquino faces growing political storm over deadly raid
MAMASAPANO, Philippines (Reuters) – Philippine leader Benigno Aquino is facing his biggest political crisis over a botched operation to capture a wanted militant, amid revelations that a suspended police general who is a close friend of the president p…
UK tribunal says intelligence-sharing with U.S. was unlawful
LONDON (Reuters) – A British tribunal ruled on Friday that some aspects of intelligence-sharing between security agencies in Britain and the United States were unlawful until December 2014, in a ground-breaking case brought by civil liberties groups.
Israeli official suggests Boehner misled Netanyahu on Congress speech
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A senior Israeli official suggested on Friday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been misled into thinking an invitation to address the U.S. Congress on Iran next month was fully supported by the Democrats.
China newspaper warns against ‘McCarthyism’ at Hong Kong University
HONG KONG (Reuters) – A Chinese state-backed newspaper on Friday defended a mainland student running for university office in Hong Kong against what it described as a dangerous “McCarthyite trend” in the former British colony.
Australian PM to face leadership vote after party-room revolt
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Embattled Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he will fight a challenge to his leadership at a party-room meeting next week after disgruntled government lawmakers on Friday sought to oust him following weeks of divisive specul…
EU must agree on intercepting Skype to help stop returning militants: report
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU member states must develop a common approach to lawfully intercept services such as Skype to stem the flow of European citizens returning from Syria radicalized and trained, the bloc’s agency on judicial cooperation said.
