U.N. panel tells Japan to compensate ‘comfort women’
GENEVA (Reuters) – A United Nations human rights agency is calling on Japan to guarantee independent investigations of wartime sex slavery and provide a public apology and compensation to the women who were victims.
U.N. rights body criticizes Ireland on abortion, church homes
DUBLIN (Reuters) – A United Nations human rights panel has told Ireland it should revise its highly restrictive abortion laws and that allegations of abuse of women and children at Catholic-run homes must be better investigated.
Russian court finds Putin foes guilty of inciting mass riots
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court found two protest leaders guilty of inciting mass riots on Thursday in a case that the opposition sees as part of a clampdown on President Vladimir Putin’s foes while all eyes are on Ukraine.
European court says CIA ran secret jail in a Polish forest
WARSAW (Reuters) – The CIA ran a secret jail on Polish soil, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday, piling pressure on Poland, one of Washington’s closest allies, to break its long silence about the global programme for detaining al Qaed…
Attack on bus in Iraq kills 52 prisoners, nine police
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A shooting and bombing attack on a bus near Baghdad killed 52 prisoners and nine policemen on Thursday, Ministry of Justice sources said, as politicians faced pressure to form a power-sharing government that can tackle a Sunni insur…
Chinese police arrest man after nursing home patients castrated
BEIJING (Reuters) – Police in China have arrested a man on suspicion of castrating or partially castrating four patients at a nursing home, state media said on Thursday, the latest scandal to hit the country’s medical sector.
All toxic chemicals removed from Syria now at destruction sites: OPCW
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – All the toxic chemicals removed from Syria under a deal with the Syrian government to destroy its chemical weapons stockpile have been delivered to destruction facilities outside the country, the global chemical weapons watchdog s…
Bulgarian lawmakers pave way for election with bank crisis unresolved
SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgarian lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to accept Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski’s resignation on Thursday, paving the way for an interim government to take over in August and a snap election in early October.
Pakistan officials say al Qaeda trainer, not Taliban militant, arrested
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan security officials said on Thursday they had arrested a top militant near the Afghan border but not a Pakistani Taliban leader who colleagues had identified last week as a man who once tried to blow up former president Pe…
Clashes in Libya’s Benghazi kill at least nine
BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) – At least nine people were killed and 19 wounded, mostly civilians, in heavy clashes overnight in Benghazi as government forces tried to oust Islamist militants holed up in Libya’s eastern port city, medical sources said on Th…
