‘Alarming exploitation’ of workers in Qatar: Amnesty
(Reuters) – Qatar’s construction industry is rife with abuse of migrant workers who are “treated like cattle” and live in squalid accommodation exposed to overflowing sewage, Amnesty International said in a report on Sunday.
Cameroon says army repulses attack from Central African Republic
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Assailants from the Central African Republic raided a village in eastern Cameroon but the army repulsed the attack, killing five gunmen, Cameroon Defense Minister Edgar Allain Mebe Ngo’o said on Sunday.
Gunmen kill eight members of one family in northern Mexico: media
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Gunmen entered a house and shot and killed eight people from one family on Sunday in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, local media reported.
Villagers mob U.S. aid choppers as Philippine relief effort spreads
CABUNGAAN, Philippines (Reuters) – Mobbed by hungry villagers, U.S. military helicopters dropped desperately needed aid into remote areas of the typhoon-ravaged central Philippines, as survivors of the disaster flocked to ruined churches on Sunday to p…
Irish president Higgins to make first state visit to UK
LONDON (Reuters) – Michael D. Higgins will make the first state visit to Britain by an Irish president next year three years after Queen Elizabeth made a historic trip to Dublin to help repair relations clouded by a history of conflict.
Coercion complaints underscore challenge to EU’s Kosovo accord
MITROVICA, Kosovo (Reuters) – Low turnout and complaints of coercion in a re-run election in northern Kosovo on Sunday underscored the challenge facing the European Union in implementing an accord designed to end the country’s ethnic partition.
U.S. military working on plan to train thousands of Libyans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military is working on plans to train 5,000 to 7,000 members of the Libyan security forces and also special operations forces who can carry out counter-terrorism missions, a senior U.S. military official said.
31 Syrian soldiers killed in bomb attack: monitoring group
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Thirty one Syrian soldiers were killed on Sunday in bomb attack at a government building in a town on the outskirts of the capital, a monitoring group that documents Syrian battlefield developments said.
Boeing airliner crashes in Russia, 50 killed
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Boeing 737 airliner crashed on Sunday in the Russian city of Kazan, killing all 50 people on board and spotlighting the poor safety record of regional airlines that ply internal routes across the world’s largest nation.
Libya’s deputy spy chief kidnapped at airport
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s deputy intelligence chief was kidnapped outside Tripoli’s international airport on Sunday, a month after the prime minister was snatched by militiamen.
