Afghan candidates in last minute talks to defuse election crisis
KABUL (Reuters) – Rival Afghan presidential candidates Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani held last-minute talks on Monday to try to resolve a standoff over the outcome of a troubled election, as officials once again delayed the announcement of prelimi…
China’s crackdown in restive Xinjiang nets 400 suspects
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has taken down more than 40 groups it calls “violent terror gangs” and arrested more than 400 people in its restive western region of Xinjiang since authorities began a crackdown in May, state media said on Monday.
Uganda says kills 60 gunmen, troops deployed near oil area
KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda’s army said on Monday it had killed more than 60 gunmen who attacked police and army posts in the west on Saturday, while extra troops had been deployed to restore security in an area near the country’s new oil fields.
Girl killed, eight people hurt in Iraqi airstrike: Kurdish official
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A 12-year-old girl has been killed and eight other civilians wounded in an Iraqi airstrike on a Kurdish-held town in Iraq’s northern province of Salahuddin, a Kurdish security forces official said.
Italy rescues more than 2,600 boat migrants over weekend
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s search and rescue mission saved more than 2,600 migrants from boats in the Mediterranean over the weekend, the navy said on Monday, as the number reaching Italy from Africa this year surges to a record.
Putin says Russia must boost arms exports: RIA news agency
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia should boost its arms exports to help the industry upgrade and add more high-end jobs to the labor market, President Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying on Monday.
How politics nearly ruined deal to end S.Africa’s longest strike
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Forty-eight hours after talks to end South Africa’s longest strike hit a brick wall when the mining minister suddenly pulled out, a bishop and an anti-establishment corporate lawyer engineered a deal at a secret meeting in a ri…
Indonesian presidential hopeful prays Mecca trip will win votes
JAKARTA (Reuters) – The front-runner in Wednesday’s Indonesian presidential election has flown to Mecca on a whirlwind pilgrimage in a last-ditch bid to win voters among the world’s largest Muslim population and put to rest damaging suggestions that he…
Sri Lanka asylum seekers returned by Australia face ‘rigorous imprisonment’
SYDNEY/COLOMBO (Reuters) – Forty-one Sri Lankan asylum seekers returned by Australia are to be charged with leaving the country illegally and those found guilty face “rigorous imprisonment”, police said on Monday, fuelling concerns about Australian pol…
Britain pledges to investigate child sex abuse conspiracy claims
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain pledged on Monday to investigate allegations that politicians may have sexually abused children in the 1980s and then used their position to scuttle attempts to uncover their crimes.
