South Sudan rebel will do best to go to peace talks: U.N. chief
JUBA (Reuters) – The U.N. secretary-general said on Tuesday that South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek Machar had been invited to Ethiopia for peace talks and that would “try his best” to go by the end of the week.
Egypt court bans Mubarak-era leaders from running in elections
CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court on Tuesday banned the leaders of autocratic ex-president Hosni Mubarak’s party from running in any coming elections but did not list any names, drawing complaints about a lack of clarity that could blunt the move’s i…
Nigeria’s Boko Haram threatens to sell kidnapped schoolgirls
ABUJA (Reuters) – The leader of Boko Haram on Monday threatened to sell more than 200 schoolgirls his Islamist militant group kidnapped in northeastern Nigeria last month.
Thai court almost certain to rule against PM, force her from office
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s Constitutional Court is almost certain to rule against Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on abuse of power charges on Wednesday, forcing her from office and raising the possibility of fresh mass protests by her supporter…
No date set for rebel pullout from Syria’s Homs: governor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The timing of an evacuation of rebels from the central Syrian city of Homs under a deal with government forces has not been set and could still take days to arrange, the provincial governor said on Tuesday.
Afghan police shoot into the air as landslide aid truck attacked
AAB BAREEK, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Afghan police fired gunshots into the air on Tuesday to disperse villagers who fought police and aid workers distributing emergency supplies near the remote site of a deadly landslide, witnesses said.
U.S. investigates Chinese oil rig move amid Vietnam complaints
HONG KONG (Reuters) – The United States said on Tuesday it was investigating the movement of a huge Chinese oil rig that Vietnam says has entered its waters, the latest show of Beijing’s growing assertiveness to raise alarm among smaller countries in t…
Kosovo leaders agree early election after vote on army nixed
PRISTINA (Reuters) – Leaders of Kosovo’s main parties agreed on Tuesday to dissolve parliament this week and hold an early election on June 8 after Serb minority lawmakers nixed a vote on creating a national army by failing to show up.
Illegal alcohol kills at least 33 people in Kenya
NAIROBI (Reuters) – At least 33 people in Kenya died on Monday night and Tuesday from drinking illegal liquor, local media and government officials said on Tuesday. Some 45 have been hospitalized and several have gone blind.
Six wounded in knife attack at southern China rail station
BEIJING (Reuters) – A single knife-wielding assailant wounded six people on Tuesday in an attack at a railway station in China’s southern city of Guangzhou, police and state media said, the latest of a series of assaults to raise jitters around the cou…
