Nigeria sets presidential, legislative polls for February 14, 2015
ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s electoral commission declared on Friday that presidential and parliamentary elections would take place on February 14 next year.
Khodorkovsky associate Lebedev freed after Russian court ruling
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s business partner Platon Lebedev walked free on Friday after more than 10 years in prison, following in his better-known associate’s footsteps after the Russian Supreme Court shortened his sent…
Medical charity in Myanmar says treated wounded near site of alleged massacre
YANGON (Reuters) – Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Friday it had treated 22 people in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state who had apparently been wounded last week around the time of a reported massacre of Rohingya Muslims. The government …
Striking South African miners meet platinum firms
RUSTENBURG, South Africa (Reuters) – South Africa’s main platinum miners union will resume government-brokered talks next week with the world’s top three producers, in an effort to end a strike that showed flickers of violence on its second day, offici…
Exclusive: Patience runs thin as Syrian chemical handover stalls
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Western governments are growing impatient with Syria’s failure to follow up promptly on a first small shipment of chemical weapons and fear Damascus will miss a deadline to hand over all toxins by mid-2014.
North Korea warns U.S., South Korea military drills could spark disaster
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – North Korea took its demand for the United States and South Korea to halt joint military drills to the United Nations, holding a rare news conference on Friday to warn that the exercises could get “out of control and plunge i…
Venezuela decrees new price controls to fight inflation
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela on Friday decreed a new price control law that sets limits on company profits and establishes prison terms for those charged with hoarding or over-charging, part of socialist President Nicolas Maduro’s efforts to tame infl…
Ukraine leader pledges government reshuffle ahead of more rallies
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich, in what appeared to be an offer of concessions to the opposition amid violent protests against his rule, pledged on Friday to reshuffle the government next week and to amend sweeping anti-protest …
At least 10 killed after blast at Congo arms dump
KINSHASA (Reuters) – An explosion at an arms depot in Democratic Republic of Congo killed at least 10 people in a nearby town on Friday, according to a senior local government official.
Pakistani court sentences mentally ill Briton to death for blasphemy
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan has handed a death sentence for blasphemy to a 69-year-old Briton with a history of mental illness, even though his lawyers were barred from the courtroom partway through the trial, the law firm said on Friday.
