Gunmen abduct eight more girls in northeast Nigeria: police
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kidnapped eight girls from a village near one of the Islamists’ strongholds in northeastern Nigeria overnight, police and residents said on Tuesday.
Colombia says uncovered spying aimed at disrupting peace talks
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia said on Tuesday it had uncovered spying aimed at disrupting peace talks with leftist rebels that might have included hacking the e-mail of President Juan Manuel Santos and that is linked to the staff of an opposition leader….
South Africa holds first ‘Born Free’ election
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa holds its first “Born Free” election on Wednesday although polls suggest the allure of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) as the conqueror of apartheid will prevail even among voters with no memory of white…
Gerry Adams calls on Irish government to act over arrest
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams on Tuesday called on the Irish government to defend Northern Ireland’s peace deal and stop Britain from “persecuting Republicans” in the wake of his arrest in a murder investigation last week.
Warlord Kony hiding in disputed South Sudan enclave: U.N.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Warlord Joseph Kony and some of his Lord’s Resistance Army commanders are hiding in Sudanese-controlled areas of a disputed enclave in South Sudan bordering Central African Republic and Sudan, the United Nations said on Tuesd…
U.S. issues sanctions on both sides of South Sudan conflict
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on two people on opposing sides of the ethnic violence in South Sudan, showing the growing frustration in Washington with leaders in an African country it helped create.
Egypt’s presidential frontrunner Sisi cautious on energy subsidies
CAIRO (Reuters) – Former Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who is expected to win a presidential election this month, said in a television interview broadcast on Tuesday that costly energy subsidies could not be lifted quickly.
In China’s Xinjiang, economic divide seen fuelling ethnic unrest
URUMQI, China (Reuters) – Hundreds of migrant workers from distant corners of China pour daily into the Urumqi South railway station, their first waypoint on a journey carrying them to lucrative work in other parts of the far western Xinjiang region.
Twelve Pakistani Taliban killed in factional in-fighting
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Twelve militants were killed in fighting between factions of the Pakistani Taliban near the Afghan border on Tuesday, Taliban and security officials said, the first such clash since the two feuding groups agreed to abide …
India’s Gandhi dynasty battles to hold seat in family bastion
AMETHI, India (Reuters) – At a shabby government health center in the rural bastion of India’s ruling Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, mothers cradling sick babies sidestep dogs sleeping in unlit corridors.
