India’s BJP pulls further ahead: opinion poll
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s opposition Bharatiya Janata Party has picked up more popular support and remains best placed to lead a coalition government after a national election due by May, an opinion poll showed on Thursday.
Baseball in Brazil? U.S. sports rise in the land of soccer
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil is and always will be a soccer country, especially during a year in which it hosts the World Cup.
Belgium extends “right-to-die” to terminally ill children
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgium became the first country to allow euthanasia for terminally ill children of any age on Thursday when its lower house of parliament passed new “right-to-die” legislation by a large majority.
Attackers fire rockets at prison in Yemeni capital
SANAA (Reuters) – Attackers fired rocket-propelled grenades at the main prison in Yemen’s capital on Thursday in a failed attempt to free convicts, security sources and witnesses said.
Israeli fire kills Palestinian in Gaza: hospital
GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian and wounded another on Thursday in the Gaza Strip, local hospital officials said.
UK’s relations with EU broadly effective, says government study
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s relations with the European Union are broadly working well in key areas, a government review said on Thursday in findings out of step with Prime Minister David Cameron’s calls for radical EU reform.
Three journalists and a union leader detained in Niger
NIAMEY (Reuters) – Police in Niger have detained three journalists from the Anfani private radio station as well as a union leader who criticized President Mahamadou Issfouou on air, the station’s director-general told Reuters.
Turkish president sees ‘problems’ in law tightening Internet controls
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Thursday he saw problems with a controversial bill backed by Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan that would tighten government control over the Internet.
Spain says police fired rubber bullets at migrants trying to swim to enclave
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain said on Thursday border police had fired rubber bullets in an attempt to turn back around 200 migrants who tried to cross the frontier between Morocco and Spain’s north African enclave Ceuta on February 6.
Kenya denies obstructing case against its president
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Kenya’s most senior government lawyer rejected claims on Thursday it was obstructing the International Criminal Court’s investigation into crimes against humanity allegedly committed by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta.
