Clerics urge calm before Monday’s rally in divided Kenya
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Religious leaders in Kenya have urged calm ahead of an opposition rally next week that threatens to stoke tension in a nation scarred by political violence in the recent past.
Three killed in blast at Egyptian house used for bomb-making: report
CAIRO (Reuters) – Three people are believed to have been killed in an explosion early on Friday at a house south of Cairo used for making bombs, the Eyptian state news agency MENA reported.
Thieves in Mexico steal truck with dangerous radioactive load
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Thieves in central Mexico on Thursday stole a pick-up truck carrying dangerous radioactive material, authorities said.
Ukraine parliament gives preliminary nod to emergency energy plans
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s parliament gave preliminary approval on Friday to a draft law that would allow the Kiev government to exert tighter control over the energy sector in the face of dwindling natural gas supplies after Russia cut off exports las…
Hong Kong police charge pro-democracy march organizers
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Five organizers of a massive pro-democracy rally in Hong Kong were charged by police on Friday with a range of minor offences, as pressure builds on Communist Party rulers in Beijing to introduce political reforms in the former Br…
China’s Xi invites South Korea joint effort on Japan’s wartime past
SEOUL (Reuters) – China and South Korea have a common interest in ensuring Tokyo is held to account for its wartime past, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Friday, amid their shared concerns about Japan’s more assertive security strategy.
Abe heads to Australia after step back from post-war pacifism
TOKYO (Reuters) – A week after loosening curbs on Japan’s military, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe heads to Australia to bolster security ties and conclude a defence industry agreement that may help seal a deal to build Australia a fleet of stealth submarin…
Myanmar Buddhists threaten death to Muslims in Mandalay unrest
MANDALAY Myanmar (Reuters) – Hundreds of Buddhists threatened to kill Muslims as they rode on motorcycles through Myanmar’s second-largest city of Mandalay on Friday, raising the prospect of further communal violence after two people died in unrest ear…
South Africa’s metal workers, employers ‘not far’ from wage deal: union official
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Striking engineering and metal workers and employers are “not very far from each other” on a wage deal to end a four-day walkout, the General Secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) said on Frida…
Malaysian police make new arrests of suspected Sri Lankan Tamil activists
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian police said on Friday they had arrested four foreign nationals suspected of having links to Sri Lanka’s defeated separatist Tamil Tigers, the second such detention aimed at the group’s militants in the southeast Asian…
