Modi’s BJP makes big gains in Indian state polls
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party has made big gains in two Indian state elections, results showed on Sunday, an endorsement likely to encourage him to step up the pace of economic reforms.
Nigerians doubtful of girls’ release after Boko Haram ‘truce’ breached
LAGOS (Reuters) – – A wave of violence hours after Nigeria’s government announced a truce with Boko Haram raised doubt on Sunday about whether more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the Islamist militants will really be released, deflating the new hope…
China says it’s hard to resume cyber security talks with U.S.
BEIJING (Reuters) – Resuming cyber security cooperation between China and the United States would be difficult because of “mistaken U.S. practices”, China’s top diplomat told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
Shelling in east Ukraine’s Donetsk kills four civilians
DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Four civilians were killed and nine wounded by shrapnel during fighting on Saturday and Sunday in eastern Ukraine’s separatist stronghold city of Donetsk, local officials said.
Germany blames pro-Russian rebels for MH17 passenger plane crash: Spiegel
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s BND foreign intelligence agency has concluded that pro-Russian rebels are to blame for the downing of Malaysia Airline MH17 in Ukraine in July, Der Spiegel weekly reported on Sunday, the first European agency to say so.
Church should not fear change, pope says at synod close
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Sunday closed an assembly of Catholic bishops that revealed deep divisions on how to reach out to homosexuals and divorced people, saying the Church should not be afraid of change and new challenges.
EU’s Barroso warns against UK PM Cameron’s plan to change bloc’s migration rules
LONDON (Reuters) – Outgoing EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Sunday warned British Prime Minister David Cameron against trying to rewrite the European Union’s freedom of movement principle, saying it was essential to the bloc’s internal m…
Brazil’s Rousseff on the offensive a week from runoff vote
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Opposition candidate Aecio Neves is heading into the final week of Brazil’s presidential race with a razor-thin lead in polls, but it’s the incumbent Dilma Rousseff who appears to be gaining momentum in the homestretch.
Half-mumbled prayers and friction at Jerusalem’s holiest site
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli and Palestinian police kept a tight watch over the al-Aqsa mosque compound on Sunday amid high tension between Muslims and Jewish visitors to the holy site and calls from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to defend it by…
Liberian leader say Ebola risks ‘lost generation’, urges action
DAKAR (Reuters) – The Ebola outbreak in West Africa risks unleashing an economic catastrophe that will leave a “lost generation” of young West Africans, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said on Sunday, urging stronger international action.
