Algeria’s Bouteflika offers reforms to skeptical opposition
ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, newly re-elected despite suffering a stroke last year, has proposed a raft of reforms including setting a two-term presidential limit and delegating more authority to the prime minister, a go…
Resist or cooperate? Crimean Tatars split over Russian rule
BAKHCHISARAY, Crimea (Reuters) – Seventy years after their families’ mass deportation under Soviet leader Josef Stalin, the Crimean Tatars are in a quandary: should they cooperate with their homeland’s new Russian authorities or resist them?
Former Belgian prime minister Jean-Luc Dehaene dies at 73
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Former Belgian Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene, a major figure in European politics throughout the 1990s and a renowned advocate of deeper European integration, died on Thursday aged 73, his party said.
Red Cross boosts South Sudan aid, plans first airdrops in years
GENEVA (Reuters) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday it was planning its first airdrops in almost two decades and massively scaling up operations to help hundreds of thousands hit by fighting in South Sudan.
Five dead as worst floods in 120 years hit Serbia, Bosnia
SARAJEVO/BELGRADE (Reuters) – The heaviest rains and floods in 120 years have hit Bosnia and Serbia, killing five people, forcing hundreds out of their homes and cutting off entire towns.
At least 31 people killed in Central African Republic fighting
BANGUI (Reuters) – At least 31 people, many of them civilians, were killed in clashes between Christian and Muslim fighters in Central African Republic this week, a local priest and Red Cross officials said on Thursday.
Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in West Bank clash
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians during a stone-throwing protest on Thursday to mark the “Nakba”, or “catastrophe”, as Palestinians term their displacement when Israel was founded.
Kenya angry at Western travel warnings as tourists leave
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya rebuked Britain, the United States, Australia and France on Thursday for issuing warnings about travel to the east African country, while hoteliers said at least 400 tourists had checked out of hotels along the Indian Ocean co…
Germany’s eurosceptics gain support but ‘populist’ tag stings
BRANDENBURG, Germany (Reuters) – Since the agony of just missing out on parliament seats in the German election last year, the leader of Germany’s eurosceptic party has been branded a “salon fascist”, seen 40 percent of his posters destroyed, and encou…
British PM Cameron visits Scotland to fight for United Kingdom
GLASGOW, Scotland (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron urged Scots on Thursday to stay in the United Kingdom during an unusual two-day visit to Scotland to counter a rise in support for secession in opinion polls and criticism of the anti-i…
