Madagascar’s ex-leader detained after return: local media
ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) – Madagascar’s exiled former leader Marc Ravalomanana was detained on Monday after returning to the Indian Ocean island for the first time since he was deposed in a coup in 2009, local newspapers reported on their websites.
Britain’s ‘secret’ terrorism trial due to start this week
LONDON (Reuters) – Jury members were sworn in on Monday at the start of a terrorism trial that prosecutors had tried to hold entirely in secret – a bid unprecedented in recent British legal history.
Vatican document challenges Church to change attitude to gays
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – In a dramatic shift in tone, a Vatican document said on Monday that homosexuals had “gifts and qualities to offer” and asked if Catholicism could accept gays and recognize positive aspects of same-sex couples.
Austrian ex-interior minister’s jail term for bribery cut to three years
VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria’s top court on Monday reduced on appeal to three years a jail term imposed on an ex-European Parliament member for offering to propose amendments to laws in exchange for 100,000 euros ($126,830) a year, a court spokesman said…
Government-backed candidates win in Turkish judicial vote
ANKARA (Reuters) – Government-backed candidates won most seats in a top Turkish judicial body, election results showed on Monday, tightening President Tayyip Erdogan’s control over the judiciary in a victory over his rival Fethullah Gulen.
Taliban ambush kills 22 Afghan soliders, police in north: official
KABUL (Reuters) – Taliban insurgents ambushed a convoy of Afghan security forces in a mountainous area of northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing 22 soldiers and police, an official said.
The key to nuclear’s future or an element of doubt?
CADARACHE France (Reuters) – Behind thick glass in a laboratory nestled in French woodland, a silvery molten metal swirls like a liquid mirror. But the material is no mere novelty; as dangerous as it is captivating, it could offer a solution to the nuc…
Ukraine’s Poroshenko proposes National Guard commander for defense minister
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Monday proposed National Guard commander Stepan Poltorak for defense minister, the presidential website said.
UK vote on Palestine status will not change policy – PM Cameron’s spokesman
LONDON (Reuters) – British foreign policy towards Palestine will not change, even if lawmakers on Monday vote in favor of a motion stating that the government should recognize it as a state, Prime Minister David Cameron’s official spokesman told report…
China court sentences 12 to death for Xinjiang attacks
BEIJING (Reuters) – A court in the unruly far western Chinese region of Xinjiang sentenced 12 people to death and handed out dozens of other heavy sentences on Monday for attacks in July in which almost 100 people died.
