Kosovo lawmakers pass 2014 budget, avoiding early election
PRISTINA (Reuters) – Lawmakers in Kosovo on Thursday approved the proposed budget for next year, clearing the first hurdle in a process that could have triggered an early election for a coalition government struggling with an internal rebellion.
Car bomb in northern Iraq kills 25
BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) – A car bomb exploded in a busy market in northeastern Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 25 people and wounding more than 30, the town’s mayor and medical sources said.
Ugandan opposition figure charged over ‘unlawful society’
KAMPALA (Reuters) – Leading Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye was charged on Thursday with belonging to an unlawful society, a police official said.
France says Central African Republic on verge of genocide
PARIS (Reuters) – France said on Thursday that Central African Republic was “on the verge of genocide” and it expected the United Nations to give Paris and the African Union permission to intervene.
Modi campaign stirs religious divide in India’s heartland
AGRA, India (Reuters) – Prime ministerial hopeful Narendra Modi used a large rally in India’s historic city of Agra on Thursday to push his Hindu nationalist agenda in a key election state where the sizeable Muslim minority eyes his campaign with alarm…
Three ‘slave’ women held for 30 years rescued from London house
LONDON (Reuters) – Three women enslaved for 30 years have been rescued from a house in London including one who has spent her entire life in domestic servitude, police said on Thursday.
French farmers block roads as data adds to Hollande woes
SAINT-ARNOULT-EN-YVELINES, France (Reuters) – Farmers blocked roads around Paris with tractors on Thursday in a protest against rising taxes, adding to President Francois Hollande’s troubles as surprising new data showed France risks slipping into a ne…
Ukraine drops plan to go West, turns East
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine abruptly abandoned a historic new alliance with its western neighbors on Thursday, halting plans for an imminent trade pact with the European Union and saying it would instead revive talks with Russia.
Bahrain witness ‘intimidated’ before UK bribery trial
LONDON (Reuters) – The chairman of Bahraini aluminum smelter Alba told a London court on Thursday that lawyers from a top British firm had sought to intimidate him before he gave evidence in a major criminal corruption trial.
Feud between Turkey’s Erdogan and influential cleric goes public
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A feud between Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and an influential Islamic cleric has spilled into the open months ahead of elections, highlighting fractures in the religiously conservative support base underpinning his decade…
