U.N. rights official to return to Congo despite expulsion: spokesman
KINSHASA (Reuters) – The top U.N. human rights official in the Democratic Republic of Congo has left the country after the government ordered his expulsion for publishing a report accusing the police of abuses, but a U.N. spokesman said on Sunday he wo…
Two foreign tourists missing after Thai boat sinking
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Authorities were searching the sea near the southern Thai tourist island of Phuket on Sunday night for two foreign tourists who went missing after a boat collision, officials said.
Roadside bomb kills six soldiers in Egypt’s Sinai
CAIRO (Reuters) – Six Egyptian soldiers were killed by a remotely-detonated roadside bomb in the Sinai Peninsula on Sunday, the army said in a statement.
North and South Korea exchange gunfire at border in latest clash
SEOUL (Reuters) – North and South Korea exchanged gunfire on Sunday when the North’s soldiers approached the military border and did not retreat after the South fired warning shots, the South Korean Defence Ministry said.
Thousands of Catalans crowd Barcelona to call for early elections
MADRID (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Catalans crowded central Barcelona on Sunday calling for early regional elections after plans for a Nov. 9 referendum on independence from Spain were declared illegal by Madrid.
Ukraine’s ‘pitchfork’ populist could be wild card in new line-up
KIEV (Reuters) – He’s not averse to taking a dizzying punch to the head if he can score a point. Rights groups accuse him of using armed squads to abduct suspected separatists. His party’s program, somewhat improbably, calls for nuclear rearmament of U…
Modi’s BJP makes big gains in Indian state polls
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party has made big gains in two Indian state elections, results showed on Sunday, an endorsement likely to encourage him to step up the pace of economic reforms.
Nigerians doubtful of girls’ release after Boko Haram ‘truce’ breached
LAGOS (Reuters) – – A wave of violence hours after Nigeria’s government announced a truce with Boko Haram raised doubt on Sunday about whether more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the Islamist militants will really be released, deflating the new hope…
China says it’s hard to resume cyber security talks with U.S.
BEIJING (Reuters) – Resuming cyber security cooperation between China and the United States would be difficult because of “mistaken U.S. practices”, China’s top diplomat told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
Shelling in east Ukraine’s Donetsk kills four civilians
DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Four civilians were killed and nine wounded by shrapnel during fighting on Saturday and Sunday in eastern Ukraine’s separatist stronghold city of Donetsk, local officials said.
