Turkish women protest against deputy PM’s no laughing comments
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Hundreds of Turkish women posted pictures of themselves laughing on Twitter on Wednesday to protest against comments by Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc who had urged women not to laugh in public to “protect moral values”.
Nigeria opens long-awaited battle of ideas against Boko Haram
KADUNA Nigeria (Reuters) – In classrooms facing a sandy courtyard in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, Maska Road Islamic School teaches a creed that condemns the violent ideology of groups like Boko Haram.
Italy’s former communist L’Unita daily to stop publication
ROME (Reuters) – L’Unita, the left-wing daily founded by Antonio Gramsci, one of the fathers of Italian communism, will suspend publication from Friday after its shareholders failed to reach agreement on future strategy, the newspaper said.
African girls to sue British Airways over alleged abuse by pilot
LONDON (Reuters) – Girls and young women who allege they were sexually abused by a British Airways (BA) pilot in African schools and orphanages plan to sue the airline, a law firm representing them said on Wednesday.
Australian asylum seeker policy is ‘child abuse’: religious leaders
SYDNEY (Reuters) – An Australian senator on Wednesday accused the government of trying to whitewash its hard-line asylum seeker policies by blocking access to a detention center holding 157 Sri Lankan migrants recently held at sea by authorities for al…
Three killed in car bomb in Cairo: Egyptian state-run TV
CAIRO (Reuters) – Three people were killed in a car bomb blast on Wednesday in Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt’s state-run Nile Television said.
U.S. judge says cannot seize Kurdish crude for now
HOUSTON (Reuters) – A high-stakes dispute over a tanker carrying $100 million in Iraqi Kurdish crude took a surprising turn on Tuesday when a U.S. judge said she lacked jurisdiction given the ship’s distance from the Texas shore and urged that the case…
No safe haven in China’s corruption crackdown: People’s Daily
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China will not allow exceptions in its corruption crackdown, its main official newspaper said on Wednesday, a day after news of a probe into former domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang, one of China’s most influential politicians …
Colombia president says ‘demented’ FARC attacks could end peace talks
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos warned on Tuesday that continuing attacks perpetrated by leftist FARC guerrillas, many of which target infrastructure, could bring an end to peace negotiations with the government.
Bombs in Syria’s Aleppo kill 13 pro-Assad fighters: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Opposition forces in Syria exploded bombs in tunnels under Aleppo late on Tuesday and killed at least 13 fighters loyal to President Bashar al-Assad in the northern city, a group tracking the violence said.
