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…
China plans railway to India, Nepal borders by 2020
BEIJING (Reuters) – China plans to extend a railway line linking Tibet with the rest of the country to the borders of India, Nepal and Bhutan by 2020 once an extension to a key site in Tibetan Buddhism opens, a state-run newspaper reported on Thursday….
Venezuela’s world-famous ‘vertical slum’ may be demolished
CARACAS (Reuters) – An abandoned Caracas skyscraper dubbed the world’s tallest shanty-town after a squatters’ takeover could be demolished once its inhabitants are out, Venezuela’s leader said on Wednesday.
Gaza bloodshed deepens as airlines shun Israel
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Gaza fighting raged on Wednesday, displacing thousands more Palestinians in the battered territory as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said efforts to secure a truce between Israel and Hamas had made some progress.
Suicide bombs in Nigeria’s Kaduna kill 82, ex-leader Buhari targeted
KADUNA Nigeria (Reuters) – At least 82 people were killed on Wednesday in two suicide bombings in the north Nigerian city of Kaduna, one aimed at opposition leader and ex-president Muhammadu Buhari and another at a moderate Muslim cleric about to lead …
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.
Seleka to sign ceasefire, drops call for Central African Republic split
BRAZZAVILLE/DAKAR (Reuters) – Central African Republic’s mainly Muslim Seleka rebels will sign a ceasefire with ‘anti-balaka’ Christian militia on Wednesday, having dropped their demands for the country to be split in two along religious lines, Seleka …
Exclusive: Ukraine rebel commander acknowledges fighters had BUK missile
DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – A powerful Ukrainian rebel leader has confirmed that pro-Russian separatists had an anti-aircraft missile of the type Washington says was used to shoot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 and it could have originated in Russi…
