Italian firm to provide surveillance drone for U.N. in Congo
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations said on Thursday it has procured an unarmed surveillance drone from Italian defense electronics firm Selex ES, a unit of Finmeccanica, that will be deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the coming…
Black Italy minister pulls out of debate amid racial insults
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s first black minister has pulled out of a debate with the anti-immigrant Northern League after its leader refused to condemn a barrage of racial insults she has faced from his party’s members.
Moroccans to protest royal pardon for Spanish pedophile
RABAT (Reuters) – Moroccans outraged by a royal pardon for a Spanish pedophile serving a 30-year sentence for raping 11 children in the North African kingdom are planning a protest in Rabat on Friday.
Chemical weapons investigators head to Syria within days: U.N.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. inspectors will travel to Syria within days to investigate claims of chemical weapons use in the country’s civil war after the Syrian government granted access to three sites, the United Nations said on Thursday.
Explosion in Syrian city of Homs kills 40: monitoring group
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Forty people were killed and at least 120 people were wounded in an explosion at a weapons cache in the central Syrian city of Homs on Thursday, a group opposed to President Bashar al-Assad said.
Algeria reinforces army on Tunisian border: minister
ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algeria has strengthened its military presence near the border with Tunisia and the two nations are boosting security information exchange to fight Islamist militancy, Algerian Interior Minister Daho Ould Kablia said on Thursday.
Algeria reinforces army on Tunisian border: minister
ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algeria has strengthened its military presence near the border with Tunisia and the two nations are boosting security information exchange to fight Islamist militancy, Algerian Interior Minister Daho Ould Kablia said on Thursday.
German Catholic seminarians expelled for Nazi jokes, salute
PARIS (Reuters) – An investigation into rumors of neo-Nazi activity at a seminary in Bavaria has resulted in two student priests being expelled for imitating the Nazi salute and making jokes about death camps, two bishops announced.
Egypt’s defiant Muslim Brotherhood supporters gird for conflict
CAIRO (Reuters) – Standing by a brick and sandbag barricade on the edge of a Muslim Brotherhood protest camp in Cairo, chief guard Mohamed Saqr is preparing to resist a threatened attempt by security forces to storm in.
Kazakh tycoon Ablyazov faces extradition from France
AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France (Reuters) – Fugitive Kazakh oligarch Mukhtar Ablyazov, accused of embezzling around $6 billion, was told by a French judge on Thursday that he faced extradition, but his family vowed to fight an expulsion it said was politically…
