Pakistan government offers last-minute deal but fails to avert protest
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s civilian government failed on Tuesday to persuade opposition leader Imran Khan to ditch plans to march on the capital in protest against alleged ballot rigging in last year’s general election.
Obama congratulates Turkey’s Erdogan on presidential win
EDGARTOWN Mass. (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama congratulated Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday for his victory as the country’s next president, the White House said.
Ukraine says may block Russian aid convoy
KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian convoy of trucks carrying tonnes of humanitarian aid left on Tuesday for eastern Ukraine, where government forces are closing in on pro-Russian rebels, but Kiev said it would not allow the vehicles to cross onto its te…
Nigeria races to halt Ebola spread in overcrowded Lagos
LAGOS (Reuters) – When Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer collapsed at Lagos airport, he brought Ebola into a potentially ideal place for the deadly virus to spread – a vast, dirty, overcrowded city where tracing carriers and their contacts is a major pr…
Russia, Belarus hold talks over re-export of banned Western food
MINSK/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Moscow dispatched top veterinary officials to Belarus on Tuesday after the neighboring country, which has a free trade zone with Russia, said it would not become a back-door conduit for banned Western food products.
Sri Lanka violates refugee law by deporting Pakistanis: UNHCR
GENEVA/COLOMBO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Sri Lanka is violating international law by deporting Pakistani asylum seekers by force and without allowing the United Nations to assess their asylum claims, the U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday.
South Africa’s Ramaphosa says miners’ living conditions ‘inhumane’
PRETORIA (Reuters) – South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday that living conditions for many miners were “inhumane” and that he wished that he had done more as an executive at the platinum producer Lonmin to improve them.
Croatia rejects demand for referendum to restrict Cyrillic signs
ZAGREB (Reuters) – Croat war veterans on Tuesday lost their bid to hold a referendum that would have tightened restrictions on the use of Cyrillic language signs in areas of Croatia populated by the Serb minority.
Islamic State carves jihadist hub in heart of Middle East
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Ridiculed at first, the new power which has seized a third of Iraq and triggered the first American air strikes since the U.S. troop withdrawal in 2011 – has carved itself a powerful and possibly lasting presence in the Middle East.
Liberia to give two doctors trial drug, Ebola toll at 1,013
MONROVIA/DAKAR (Reuters) – Liberia said on Tuesday it would treat two infected doctors with the scarce experimental Ebola drug ZMapp, the first Africans to receive the treatment, while authorities in Spain said a 75-year-old priest had died of the dise…
