More than 65,000 fled Iraqi fighting in past week, UNHCR says
GENEVA (Reuters) – More than 65,000 people have fled fighting in the Iraqi cities of Falluja and Ramadi during the past week, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Friday.
South Sudan looters steal food to feed 220,000 for a month: U.N.
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations World Food Programme estimates that it may have lost more than 3,700 tonnes of food in looting in South Sudan, enough to feed 220,000 people for a month, WFP spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs said on Friday.
Brahimi to meet separately with Syria sides on Friday: opposition
GENEVA (Reuters) – United Nations mediator on Syria Lakhdar Brahimi will meet separately with delegations of the Syrian government and opposition on Friday in Geneva, opposition sources and the United Nations said.
Medical charity in Myanmar says treated wounded near alleged massacre site
YANGON (Reuters) – Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Friday it had treated 22 people in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state who had apparently been wounded last week around the time of a reported massacre of Rohingya Muslims, an incident the…
Syrian opposition demands a future without Assad
GENEVA (Reuters) – Syria’s opposition leader laid out his demands for talks on ending his country’s civil war, calling for the creation of a transitional government that does not include President Bashar al-Assad.
China appoints Xi to head national security commission
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping has been appointed head of the country’s new national security commission by the ruling Communist Party’s Politburo, state news agency Xinhua said on its microblog on Friday.
Israeli champion of Palestinian and women’s rights dies
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Shulamit Aloni, a fiery former left-wing Israeli leader and cabinet minister who championed Palestinian and women’s rights, died on Friday, family and colleagues said. She was 85.
China sends surveillance jets to East China Sea defense zone
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s airforce has dispatched another patrol to monitor its controversial air defense zone in the East China Sea and issue warnings to foreign military jets in the zone, it said on Friday.
Small bomb explodes in Rome near French church
ROME (Reuters) – A small makeshift explosive device blew up in a street in central Rome in the early hours of Friday, causing slight damage to a building belonging to a French religious establishment and three parked cars, police said.
Leading China activist to be sentenced on Sunday as others go on trial
HONG KONG (Reuters) – A Beijing court will sentence prominent Chinese rights activist Xu Zhiyong on Sunday in the highest-profile dissident trial since 2009, as authorities target rights defenders nationwide with another activist standing trial in Guan…
