Algeria unveils Bouteflika constitutional reform package
ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algeria’s government on Friday released details of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s constitutional reform package that includes delegating more authority to the prime minister and more powers for opposition parties in parliament.
Turkish police fire tear gas in town mourning dead miners
SOMA, Turkey (Reuters) – Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse several thousand protesters on Friday in a Turkish mining town still grieving the death of some 300 workers in the nation’s worst ever industrial disaster.
Twelve killed as Libyan militia clashes with Islamists in Benghazi
BENGHAZI (Reuters) – Libyan irregular forces backed by helicopters clashed with Islamist militias in Benghazi on Friday in fighting that left at least 12 people dead and posed a new test to the country’s fragile government.
U.N. monitors warn on human rights in east Ukraine, Crimea
GENEVA (Reuters) – Human rights violations have escalated in eastern Ukraine and serious problems are emerging in Crimea, United Nations monitors said in a report released on Friday.
U.N. study finds peacekeepers avoid using force to protect civilians
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – United Nations peacekeeping missions routinely avoid using force to protect civilians who are under attack, intervening in only 20 percent of cases despite being authorized to do so by the U.N. Security Council, an internal U…
U.S. warns ‘time is short’ as Iran nuclear talks make little progress
VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran and six world powers made little progress this week in talks on ending their dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program, U.S. and Iranian officials said on Friday, raising doubts over the prospects for a breakthrough by a July 20 dea…
Abductions seen as just one factor in coming Nigeria election
ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s last-minute decision to cancel his first visit to the village where Islamist rebels abducted more than 200 schoolgirls has sharpened criticism of his handling of the crisis.
Ivory Coast army retakes border town after attack kills 13
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Ivory Coast’s army took back control of a village on its southwestern border with Liberia on Friday after gunmen seized it in an attack that killed 13 people, the country’s defense minister said.
Violence abates in Vietnam as U.S. warns China for ‘provocation’
HANOI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Anti-China violence subsided in Vietnam on Friday after the prime minister called for calm, but the United States said China’s “provocative” actions in maritime disputes were dangerous and had to stop.
Colombia government, FARC rebels reach accord on illegal drug trade: source
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian government negotiators reached agreement with Marxist FARC rebels on the illegal drugs trade, the third item on a five-point agenda in peace talks to end a five-decade war, a source at the High Peace Commission told Reuters…
