Sweden suspends some aid to Uganda over anti-gay law
KAMPALA (Reuters) – Sweden has suspended some of its financial aid to Uganda over a law that toughened punishment for gays, becoming the fourth donor to do so.
Singapore police probe suspected suicide of digital currency exchange CEO
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore police are investigating the apparent suicide of a 28-year-old American woman who ran a small exchange in the Asian city state trading virtual currencies.
Bahrain says two children injured as bomb explodes
MANAMA (Reuters) – Bahrain’s interior ministry said on Thursday two children were injured after they were instructed to plant a bomb in the same village where a bomb killed two local policemen and an officer from the United Arab Emirates earlier this w…
Kunming attack should not be an ethnic issue: China official
BEIJING (Reuters) – A deadly knife attack at a Chinese train station last week should not be linked to ethnicity, a senior government official said, days after authorities blamed the incident on separatists from the country’s troubled far western regio…
Exclusive: Trafficking abuse of Myanmar Rohingya spreads to Malaysia
BUKIT MERTAJAM, Malaysia (Reuters) – Human traffickers have kept hundreds of Rohingya Muslims captive in houses in northern Malaysia, beating them, depriving them of food, and demanding a ransom from their families, according to detailed accounts by th…
Ill health effects seen as unlikely for New Mexico workers exposed to radiation
(Reuters) – Workers who initially tested positive for radiation exposure after an accidental release at a nuclear waste site in New Mexico are unlikely to experience any ill health effects, site managers said on Wednesday.
Singapore police probe ‘unnatural’ death of American CEO of bitcoin trader
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore police are investigating what they have called the “unnatural” death of a 28-year-old American woman who ran a small exchange that traded virtual currencies, including bitcoins, from the Asian city state.
Venezuela’s Chavez remembered with pomp and protests
CARACAS (Reuters) – Followers of late socialist leader Hugo Chavez flooded the streets of Venezuela on Wednesday for the anniversary of his death, an emotional but welcome distraction for his successor from violent protests raging for the last month.
In Ukraine’s Crimea, a tense and surreal standoff
KERCH, Ukraine (Reuters) – Holed up on their bases, Ukraine’s besieged servicemen and the Russians surrounding them in Crimea are locked in a standoff that at times is tense and at others surreal.
U.S. accuses Syria of stonewalling on chemical arms plants
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Syria is stonewalling members of the global chemical weapons watchdog and refusing to seriously negotiate on the destruction of its facilities used to produce poison gas, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations said on Wednesday…
