Tanzania PM sidesteps calls to quit over graft claims
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Tanzania’s prime minister on Thursday sidestepped calls from a parliamentary committee to resign over accusations that he had approved illegal payments to a private power company.
11 corpses dumped in same Mexico state as apparent student massacre
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Eleven mutilated corpses, many of them decapitated, were found dumped by the roadside in southwest Mexico on Thursday in the same state where 43 trainee teachers were abducted and apparently massacred two months ago, local autho…
NATO wrestles with new fast-reaction force prompted by Ukraine crisis
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO’s planned new fast-reaction force, centerpiece of its response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea, is proving harder to set up than expected because of shortages of vital equipment and arguments over funding, diplomats say.
Ukraine puts on parliamentary show of unity in message to Russia
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s parliament approved Arseny Yatseniuk for a new term as prime minister on Thursday in a ceremony that countered reports of high-level disunity in a message to Russia over its backing of separatists in the country’s east.
London financier Hohn ordered to pay wife $530 million in divorce case
LONDON (Reuters) – Billionaire hedge fund manager Chris Hohn has been ordered to pay his estranged wife Jamie Cooper-Hohn 337 million pounds ($530 million) in one of the largest divorce settlements in British legal history, the BBC reported on Thursday…
Stranded Kenyan workers demand evacuation after Islamist attack
MANDERA, Kenya (Reuters) – Scores of teachers and civil servants were stranded at a remote Kenyan airstrip on Thursday, demanding evacuation and protection five days after Islamist gunmen killed 28 non-Muslim bus passengers in the surrounding border re…
Explosion, gunfire heard in diplomatic quarter of Afghan capital
KABUL (Reuters) – An explosion shook houses in the diplomatic quarter of the Afghan capital on Thursday evening and was followed by heavy gunfire that could still be heard an hour later, according to Reuters witnesses and security officials.
Colombia land return program could fail thousands: Amnesty
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of people displaced from their land during five decades of civil war in Colombia could lose out unless the government returns the property fairly and jails those responsible for driving families from their homes…
Israel says foiled Hamas plans for Jerusalem attacks
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel said on Thursday it had foiled plans by Islamist group Hamas to attack Israelis in Jerusalem’s largest soccer stadium, other parts of the city and the occupied West Bank, though Hamas said it had no information on the alleg…
Venezuela says 13 inmates die of overdose after robbing infirmary ward
CARACAS (Reuters) – Thirteen inmates have died after breaking into a Venezuelan jail’s infirmary and ingesting medical products including antibiotics and pure alcohol in the latest outbreak of unrest in the country’s turbulent prisons.
