Philippines remembers thousands killed a year after typhoon Haiyan
TACLOBAN CITY Philippines (Reuters) – Candles lit up the streets of the central Philippine city worst-hit by the strongest storm to make landfall as thousands remembered more than 6,300 people who died a year ago when typhoon Haiyan smashed into the co…
U.S. urges Europe, Asia to do more for U.N. peacekeeping
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States is urging countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia to commit more to U.N. peacekeeping operations around the world as Washington considers where it might be able to do the same, the U.S. envoy to the Unit…
Mexico says missing students likely burned to ashes by gang
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Forty-three missing students abducted by corrupt police in southwest Mexico six weeks ago were apparently incinerated by drug gang henchmen and their remains tipped in a garbage dump and a river, the government said on Friday.
Gang member confessions point to massacre of missing Mexico students
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s government said on Friday evidence suggests that 43 missing trainee teachers were murdered and their charred remains tipped in a rubbish dump and a river in southwest Mexico, based on the confessions of three detained g…
Ukraine accuses Russia of sending in tanks, escalating crisis
KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Ukraine’s military accused Russia on Friday of sending a column of 32 tanks and truckloads of troops into the country’s east to support pro-Russian separatists fighting government forces.
Mediator says South Sudan rivals agree to end war
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – South Sudan’s warring parties committed to stop fighting and bring their months-long conflict to an end without conditions, the chief mediator for regional African group IGAD said on Saturday after two days of talks in the Ethio…
U.S. urges Europe, Asia to do more for U.N. peacekeeping
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States is urging countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia to commit more to U.N. peacekeeping operations around the world as Washington considers where it might be able to do the same, the U.S. envoy to the Unit…
U.N. sanctions Yemen’s ex-President Saleh, two rebel leaders
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council imposed targeted sanctions on Friday on Yemen’s former President Ali Abdullah Saleh and two senior Houthi rebel leaders for threatening the peace and stability of the country and obstructin…
Britain says halves EU budget bill, critics cry foul
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Britain claimed victory on Friday in a budget battle with the European Union, saying it would pay only half of what Brussels had demanded, but EU officials said payment had merely been delayed and euro-sceptic critics accused minis…
Peru’s jailed ex-President Fujimori makes second plea for house detention
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s jailed former President Alberto Fujimori made a second bid to be held under house arrest on Friday, saying he fears the 25-year prison sentence he is serving for human rights abuses and corruption will lead to his “slow death” b…
