Colombia ICRC says peace may solve mystery of disappeared
BOGOTA (Reuters) – A government peace accord with Marxist FARC rebels may help solve the mystery behind tens of thousands of Colombians who disappeared during 50 years of war, a Red Cross official said on Wednesday.
Senegal police disperse crowds as ex-president’s return delayed
DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegalese police dispersed hundreds of supporters of former President Abdoulaye Wade who gathered at Dakar airport on Wednesday to welcome him back two years after losing power, but his return was delayed after his flight was stuck i…
Two policemen, militant killed in Egypt
CAIRO (Reuters) – A senior police officer was killed near Cairo on Wednesday in a bomb attack claimed by a militant group, while security forces stormed a hideout used by another Islamist organization near Alexandria in a raid that left an officer and …
Kashmiris wary as Modi challenges for power in India
ANANTNAG, India (Reuters) – Mohammad Amin Pandith, a smallholder and father-of-three from Indian-controlled Kashmir, was lured from his home at night by a man in army uniform, dragged along a potholed lane and shot in the back of the head.
Car bomb kills four in Kenyan capital
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Four people killed when a car bomb exploded outside a police station in a poor neighborhood of the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Wednesday, the Interior Ministry said.
Russia says it will respond if Ukraine interests attacked
KIEV (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the United States of being behind the political upheaval in Ukraine and said Moscow would respond if its interests came under attack.
Turkey’s Erdogan offers condolences for 1915 killings of Armenians
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan offered on Wednesday what the government said were unprecedented condolences to the grandchildren of Armenians killed in World War One by Ottoman soldiers.
Three charged in plot to ship chemical lab equipment from U.S. to Syria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three men have been charged in a conspiracy to export chemical laboratory equipment from the United States to Syria, according to an unsealed indictment released on Wednesday by the U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Pennsy…
Hamas, Abbas’s PLO announce reconciliation agreement
GAZA/RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – The Gaza-based Islamist group Hamas and President Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) announced a unity pact on Wednesday, deepening a crisis in U.S.-brokered peace talks with Israel.
U.S. Western Sahara draft urges respecting human rights, no U.N. monitors
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A U.S.-drafted resolution that would renew the U.N. peacekeeping mission in disputed Western Sahara urges all sides to respect human rights but does not ask the United Nations to monitor abuses, according to a text obtained b…
