Bosnian prisoners escape as guards man flood defenses
SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Nineteen convicts escaped from prison in Bosnia late on Tuesday while their guards manned defenses against the worst floods to hit the Balkans in living memory.
Italy tells migrants ‘Welcome, you’re safe’, tells EU to help more
ABOARD THE SAN GIORGIO (Reuters) – As night approached one evening in early May, 40 miles off the Libyan coast, Captain Aldo Dolfini trained his binoculars on a tiny vessel packed with 300 desperate men as waves whipped up by a northerly wind crashed a…
Palestinian court gives jail term to exiled Fatah official Dahlan
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – A Palestinian court has sentenced an exiled rival of President Mahmoud Abbas to two years in jail for “insulting state institutions”, raising pressure on Mohammed Dahlan after months of mutual recriminations.
Egyptian court sentences ousted leader Mubarak to three years jail
CAIRO (Reuters) – Deposed former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison on a conviction for stealing public funds.
Dutch send top diplomat to avert Saudi sanctions over anti-Islam stickers
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Netherlands will send a top diplomat to Saudi Arabia to prevent the country from imposing trade sanctions in protest at anti-Islamic stickers printed in the colors of the Saudi flag by a Dutch far-right politician, the foreign…
Politicians arrested in troubled Brazil World Cup host city
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Several leading politicians have been arrested as part of a large corruption and money laundering probe in Cuiaba, a World Cup host city in Brazil that has had some of the worst delays and other problems as the soccer tournament a…
Islamist group forces schools to close in Pakistan’s southwest
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Thousands of women, children and activists marched in Pakistan’s volatile province of Baluchistan on Wednesday in a protest against a campaign by an Islamist group to force schools to shut down across the region.
Taipei man kills three, injures 25 in subway stabbing spree
TAIPEI (Reuters) – A knife-wielding college student killed three people and injured 25, police said, in a rare incident on Taipei’s metro on Wednesday.
Vietnam, Philippines jointly denounce China’s maritime moves
MANILA/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Vietnam and the Philippines are determined to oppose Chinese infringement of their territorial waters, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said on Wednesday, calling on the world to condemn China’s actions in a rare pu…
Egypt court jails 155 Brotherhood supporters
CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court sentenced 155 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to jail terms on Wednesday and gave 54 of them life sentences, judicial sources said, in a case related to violence in the Nile Delta province of Mansour last August after …
