South Africa platinum firms: strikers intimidated not to accept offer
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The world’s top platinum producers said on Monday that striking South African miners were afraid to accept the companies’ latest wage offer because of “threats to their personal safety”.
Kenyan government defends security efforts after weekend bombings
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s government defended the efforts of its security services on Monday despite deadly weekend bombings, seven months after the Westgate shopping mall attack, and said it has foiled many other plots.
President names new Algerian government with Yousfi as oil minister
ALGIERS, May 5, Reuters – Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has named a new cabinet after his election to a fourth term, reappointing Youcef Yousfi as energy minister in the North African OPEC oil producer, state news agency APS reported on Monda…
MSF halts most Central African Republic work as government fails to condemn killings
BANGUI (Reuters) – Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has suspended all but emergency care in the Central African Republic (CAR) to show its “dismay” at the government’s failure to condemn the killing of 16 people at one of its clinics, the medical charity…
Venezuela violated rights of protesters: rights group
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government has violated the rights of opposition protesters through beatings, illegal detentions and failure to follow due process, rights group Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Monday.
U.N. committee on torture grills Vatican on sexual abuse
VATICAN CITY/GENEVA (Reuters) – A U.N. committee on torture grilled the Vatican on the Catholic Church’s child sexual abuse crisis on Monday, urging a permanent investigation system to end a “climate of impunity” prevailing for decades.
Witness feared Pistorius might shoot himself
PRETORIA (Reuters) – A defense witness in the murder trial of South African track star Oscar Pistorius told the court on Monday she feared the double amputee would shoot himself with the gun he used to kill his girlfriend on Valentine’s Day last year.
Twenty-two migrants drown after boats capsize off Greek island
ATHENS (Reuters) – Twenty-two migrants drowned and at least 10 were missing after their vessels capsized off the Greek island of Samos early on Monday in seas where hundreds have died attempting the perilous crossing this year alone, the Greek coast gu…
Leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram says abducted schoolgirls will be sold
ABUJA (Reuters) – Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Nigeria’s Islamist Boko Haram militants, said on Monday he would “sell on the market” more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by his fighters last month, according to a video obtained by the French news agenc…
Iran moves to meet May 15 deadline in U.N. nuclear deal
DUBAI/VIENNA (Reuters) – U.N. atomic agency officials held talks in Tehran on Monday before visits to two uranium sites, as Iran acts to implement a series of steps aimed at providing transparency on its nuclear research by a mid-May deadline, official…
