Shi’ite rebels shell Yemen state TV, residents flee fighting
SANAA (Reuters) – Armed Shi’ite rebels shelled Yemen’s state-run television building on Friday as they advanced into Sanaa, sending hundreds fleeing their homes in a dramatic escalation of violence after weeks of fighting and protests, officials and re…
Iran moving to comply with extended nuclear deal with powers-IAEA
VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran is taking further action to comply with the terms of an extended interim agreement with six world powers over its disputed atomic activities, a U.N. nuclear watchdog report obtained by Reuters on Friday showed.
Panama foreign minister invites Raul Castro to Americas Summit
HAVANA (Reuters) – Panamanian Foreign Minister Isabel de Saint Malo personally invited Cuban President Raul Castro to the Summit of the Americas her nation is hosting in April, according to a Cuban government statement published on Friday.
Killings in Guinea show mistrust in Africa Ebola fight: WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) – The killing in Guinea of eight people trying to educate locals about Ebola showed how much rural populations in West Africa mistrust authorities after years of instability and conflict, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Fri…
Russian businessman freed from house arrest, his company says
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov was freed from house arrest on Friday, said a company spokeswoman, but the tycoon will have to stay in Russia to face money laundering charges in a deal to acquire a regional oil company.
Colombia wants more convictions for violence against women
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – New guidelines will help Colombian forensic experts and prosecutors investigating violence against women and femicide to win more convictions and reduce the high rate of murders of women, government officials say.
New Polish PM brings her rival into government
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s prime minister designate, Ewa Kopacz, brought party rival Grzegorz Schetyna into her new government as foreign minister on Friday to try to neutralise a potential challenge to her authority.
Russian businessman freed from arrest: Sistema spokeswoman
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian businessman Vladimir Yevtushenkov was freed from arrest on Friday, a spokeswoman for his Sistema telecoms-to-oil conglomerate told Reuters.
Yamal, Russia’s gas megaplan, becomes symbol of sanctions defiance
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Dozens of Russian energy ventures are in jeopardy due to Western sanctions on technology and funding. Looming over them all, a giant project the Kremlin is bent on saving no matter what.
For followers of Nigeria’s ‘Prophet’, building collapse was ‘Satan’s work’
LAGOS (Reuters) – For supporters of “Prophet” TB Joshua, one of Africa’s best-known Christian preachers, the death of at least 80 of his congregation under the rubble of a Lagos guesthouse that collapsed a week ago was no construction accident.
