Artillery fire echoes in east Ukraine’s Donetsk
DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Artillery fire echoed in the south and northwest of rebel-held Donetsk in eastern Ukraine on Thursday and one district near the city was without electricity as Ukrainian forces pressed a military campaign against pro-Russian…
Spain’s Swiftair says lost contact with plane en route to Algiers
MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish private airline company Swiftair on Thursday said it had lost contact with one of its airplane operated by Air Algerie with 110 passengers and six crew members on board.
Train rams school bus in south India; 20 dead
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A train slammed into a school bus in southern India on Thursday, killing at least 19 children and the driver, police said.
Dutch mourn as first MH17 bodies arrive in Netherlands
EINDHOVEN Netherlands (Reuters) – The bodies of the first victims from a Malaysian airliner shot down over Ukraine last week arrived on Wednesday at a military base in the Netherlands – a nation in shock and sorrow.
Disenchanted with Putin, some Russians vote with their feet
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Most of Vladimir Paley’s clients want him to dig up their family history with one goal in mind: making a case to obtain foreign citizenship and leave Russia.
Indonesia’s Prabowo faces uncertain fate in opposition
JAKARTA (Reuters) – After spending a decade, and a chunk of the family fortune, in trying to become Indonesia’s president, an outraged Prabowo Subianto watched as leadership of the world’s third-largest democracy slipped through his fingers this week.
Sudanese Christian convert woman arrives in Italy
ROME (Reuters) – A Sudanese woman who was spared a death sentence for converting from Islam to Christianity and then barred from leaving Sudan arrived at an airport in Rome on Thursday morning on an Italian government plane.
Sudanese Christian convert woman flying to Italy: government official
ROME (Reuters) – A Sudanese woman who was spared a death sentence for converting from Islam to Christianity, and then barred from leaving Sudan, was due to arrive in Italy on Thursday, an Italian government official said.
Trial starts for Venezuela opposition leader Lopez
CARACAS (Reuters) – Jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez went on trial in Venezuela on Wednesday, accused of masterminding anti-government protests that turned violent and left 43 people dead.
U.N. urges sustained effort to improve flagging development
TOKYO (Reuters) – Governments must act together to lift more people out of poverty and reduce inequality, a United Nations agency said on Thursday, warning that global improvement in life expectancy, education and other measures of development is flagg…
