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.
Army splits that let Yemen’s capital fall augur new risks
SANAA (Reuters) – As fighting raged at the First Armored Division’s base in central Sanaa, General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar arrived in a motorcade at the general staff headquarters and entered the building shouting “Treason! Treason!”.
Romania PM loses coalition ally after election defeat
BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania’s ruling coalition splintered on Thursday as an ethnic Hungarian party said it would quit the government in the wake of Prime Minister Victor Ponta’s surprise defeat in this month’s presidential election.
UK media websites hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
LONDON (Reuters) – The websites of several British media organizations were hacked on Thursday in a suspected coordinated attack by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), an amorphous hacker collective that supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
