India’s pro-business Modi storms to historic election win
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Narendra Modi thundered to victory on Friday in India’s election, trouncing the ruling Nehru-Gandhi dynasty in a seismic political shift that gives the Hindu nationalist and his party a mandate for sweeping economic reform.
Proposed Dominican Republic immigration law gets mixed reaction
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) – Proposed legislation offering a path to citizenship for tens of thousands of Dominican-born children of immigrants met mixed reactions on Friday from human rights groups, with some saying it does not protect enough people who …
Chile probing reports that priest stole babies for adoption
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chile’s child welfare service is investigating reports that a Catholic priest was involved in giving babies up for adoption in the 1970s and 1980s without their parents’ knowledge, telling the biological mothers that their child ha…
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.
