Sudan says shuts U.N. peacekeepers’ Darfur rights office in Khartoum
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan has shut the human rights office of the joint United Nations-African Union (UNAMID) peacekeeping mission in Darfur, the foreign ministry said, amid tension over allegations of mass rape by Sudanese troops in the troubled regi…
UK boosts security service funding to help prevent ‘lone wolf’ attacks
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will increase spending on its security services to try to prevent so-called ‘lone-wolf’ attacks against the country, Prime Minister David Cameron said after the release of a report into the 2013 killing of a soldier in London…
Swiss police smash drug-smuggling ring, seize 55 kg of heroin
ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss police have arrested 15 people and seized 55 kg of heroin in raids to smash an international network smuggling drugs from Turkey to the Alpine country, police said on Tuesday.
Pakistani man shoots niece for listening to loud music
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A Pakistani man shot dead his teenage niece because she was listening to loud music, police said on Tuesday.
Chinese police again probe acquitted death row prisoner: lawyer
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese police are investigating a former death row prisoner and curbing his movements, three months after he was acquitted of the charge of poisoning two children, his lawyer said on Tuesday.
Tunisia’s Essebsi wins first presidential round, heads for run-off
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian secularist leader Beji Caid Essebsi beat incumbent President Moncef Marzouki in the first round of landmark presidential elections, but the two men will have to meet again in a December run-off, early results showed on Tuesda…
At least 18 killed in Cairo building collapse
CAIRO (Reuters) – An eight-floor residential building collapsed overnight in Cairo, killing at least 18 people and injuring seven others, security sources said on Tuesday, adding that the casualty figure was expected to rise.
Greece acts to rescue ship carrying hundreds of migrants
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece has sent a frigate to rescue a container ship believed to carrying hundreds of undocumented migrants and in distress off its southern island of Crete, the Greek coastguard said on Tuesday.
China opens separatism trial for students of jailed Uighur scholar
BEIJING (Reuters) – China opened separatism trials for seven students of jailed Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti on Tuesday, a human rights lawyer said, the latest developments in a legal drama in the Xinjiang region that has drawn criticism from the West.
Stop Mediterranean becoming vast migrant cemetery, Pope tells Europe
STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) – Pope Francis told Europe’s leaders on Tuesday to do more to help thousands of migrants risking their lives trying to get into the continent, saying they had to stop the Mediterranean becoming “a vast cemetery”.
