Top German Nazi-hunter readies Majdanek death camp cases
BERLIN (Reuters) – Prosecutors in Germany will soon get files on former guards at a Nazi death camp who could still be charged for their role in the Holocaust, the country’s top war-crimes investigator said on Tuesday, although he added that lack of ev…
Losing candidate in Guinea-Bissau presidential vote rejects result
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Nuno Gomes Nabiam, who lost Sunday’s high-stakes presidential run-off in Guinea-Bissau according to the West African nation’s elections commission, rejected the result on Tuesday.
Victorious Modi fights tears in first address to India parliament
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Narendra Modi fought back tears in an emotional first address to his party in India’s colonnaded parliament house on Tuesday, after the Hindu nationalist swept to power in an election that has changed the face of politics in the c…
Nigeria’s neglected Israeli drones won’t help find girls
JERUSALEM/LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria bought Israeli surveillance drones years ago that might have been used to hunt for more than 200 girls held by Islamist rebels, but poor maintenance has left them grounded, two official sources and the aircraft’s man…
High-profile war crimes suspects escape Kosovo hospital
PRISTINA (Reuters) – Police in Kosovo launched a manhunt on Tuesday for three high-profile war crimes suspects who appeared to have fled a hospital where they were each being treated under guard while standing trial.
Turkish miners stay off work after disaster, eight suspects held
SOMA, Turkey (Reuters) – Several thousand workers stayed away on Tuesday from mines run by a company at the center of Turkey’s worst industrial disaster, with the main labor union demanding strict site inspections.
Blasts in Nigerian city Jos kill at least 10
JOS (Reuters) – Two explosions in the main business district of the central Nigerian city of Jos killed at least 10 people on Tuesday, according to a Reuters reporter on the scene.
Vaz wins Guinea-Bissau presidential run-off: elections commission
BISSAU (Reuters) – Former Finance Minister Jose Mario Vaz has won a high-stakes presidential run-off election in Guinea-Bissau meant to draw a line under a 2012 coup, the elections commission said on Tuesday.
Russia moves to make failure to declare dual citizenship a crime
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Parliament approved legislation on Tuesday requiring Russians to declare dual citizenship or face criminal prosecution after President Vladimir Putin endorsed the measure as part of a more nationalist course taken since his annexatio…
After 50 years of war, Colombian rebels look to politics
MARQUETALIA, Colombia (Reuters) – From shallow trenches carved into an isolated mountain range, Manuel “Sureshot” Marulanda led a long battle against thousands of U.S.-backed troops seeking to wrest control of the area from his small band of peasant fi…
