Africa’s sports bars, TV shacks step up security for World Cup
KAMPALA/ABUJA (Reuters) – Guards search customers and peer into bags at Kampala’s Kyadondo bar, almost exactly four years after militants set off explosives in a sports ground outside, killing dozens of fans watching the last World Cup final on a giant…
Niger says will repatriate its illegal migrants from Algeria
NIAMEY (Reuters) – Niger will repatriate its citizens living as illegal migrants in neighboring Algeria, the justice minister announced on Sunday, as the government steps up efforts to combat trafficking networks.
Twin bombing near Kurdish party office in north Iraq kills 30
KIRKUK/TIKRIT Iraq (Reuters) – At least 30 people were killed in a double bombing targeting the offices of a Kurdish political party in the northern Iraqi town of Tuz Khurmato on Monday, local officials and medical workers said.
Suicide bomber kills four soldiers in Pakistan’s tribal northwest
MIRANSHAH Pakistan (Reuters) – A suspected Taliban suicide bomber rammed a truck into a Pakistan military checkpoint on the border with Afghanistan on Monday, killing four soldiers, military officials said.
Kosovo’s Thaci has tough job to form new cabinet, keep promises
PRISTINA (Reuters) – The ruling party of ex-guerrilla leader Hashim Thaci has won most votes in Kosovo’s parliamentary election but is left seeking partners to help fulfill buoyant promises it made to a frustrated electorate.
Thai junta to explain itself to international rights groups
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s junta said on Monday it had ordered the Thai ambassadors to the United States and Britain to meet human rights groups in an effort to “create understanding” about last month’s seizure of power.
Well-trained and armed, Taliban tried to hijack plane in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Their backpacks stuffed with food and ammunition, a squad of highly trained Taliban fighters attacked Pakistan’s biggest airport in what they clearly expected to be a protracted siege.
Myanmar military ‘tortures civilians’: human rights group
YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar security forces “systematically” torture civilians in conflict-racked Kachin state, a rights group said on Monday, the third anniversary of renewed fighting between government forces ethnic minority insurgents in the northern…
Malaysia says spent $8.6 million on search for MH370
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia has spent a total of 27.6 million ringgit ($8.6 million) so far on the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, authorities said on Monday, giving a specific cost figure for the first time.
Grillo boosted by local elections in Italy but Renzi party holds
ROME (Reuters) – Beppe Grillo’s 5-Star Movement won control of one of the historic strongholds of the Italian left in local elections at the weekend, although Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s center-left Democratic Party (PD) stayed Italy’s strongest poli…
