Russian businessman freed from house arrest, his company says
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov was freed from house arrest on Friday, said a company spokeswoman, but the tycoon will have to stay in Russia to face money laundering charges in a deal to acquire a regional oil company.
Colombia wants more convictions for violence against women
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – New guidelines will help Colombian forensic experts and prosecutors investigating violence against women and femicide to win more convictions and reduce the high rate of murders of women, government officials say.
New Polish PM brings her rival into government
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s prime minister designate, Ewa Kopacz, brought party rival Grzegorz Schetyna into her new government as foreign minister on Friday to try to neutralise a potential challenge to her authority.
Russian businessman freed from arrest: Sistema spokeswoman
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian businessman Vladimir Yevtushenkov was freed from arrest on Friday, a spokeswoman for his Sistema telecoms-to-oil conglomerate told Reuters.
Yamal, Russia’s gas megaplan, becomes symbol of sanctions defiance
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Dozens of Russian energy ventures are in jeopardy due to Western sanctions on technology and funding. Looming over them all, a giant project the Kremlin is bent on saving no matter what.
For followers of Nigeria’s ‘Prophet’, building collapse was ‘Satan’s work’
LAGOS (Reuters) – For supporters of “Prophet” TB Joshua, one of Africa’s best-known Christian preachers, the death of at least 80 of his congregation under the rubble of a Lagos guesthouse that collapsed a week ago was no construction accident.
France says it launches first air strikes in Iraq
PARIS (Reuters) – France said on Friday its jets had launched strikes inside Iraq for the first time since the country promised to join military action against Islamic State insurgents who have taken over parts of the country.
Russia eyes measures to fend off Western Internet threat: Kremlin
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia must think about protecting its Internet against threats from the West, a Kremlin spokesman said on Friday, in comments that one prominent critic said could herald moves to control all web-based data exchanges with the rest of…
Special Report: Scotland stays in UK, but Britain faces change
EDINBURGH/LONDON (Reuters) – When 3.6 million Scots voted on Thursday on whether to leave or stay within the United Kingdom, they were answering one simple question: Should Scotland be an independent country?
Uganda’s Museveni ditches former ally PM Mbabazi in power struggle
KAMPALA (Reuters) – Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has replaced his prime minister, the government said in a statement on Friday, removing a former ally some analysts had seen as a potential contender for the top job.
