Central African Republic rebels still in control of cabinet despite reshuffle
BANGUI (Reuters) – A cabinet reshuffle in Central African Republic requested by the international community to reduce the dominance of rebel leaders who seized power in a March coup has left the representatives of the SELEKA coalition in most of the to…
French should pay into pensions for longer, panel says
PARIS (Reuters) – The French should pay contributions for longer to get a full pension and well-off pensioners should pay more taxes, a much-awaited advisory report to President Francois Hollande’s government said on Friday.
Bulgaria names media magnate as security chief, causing furor
SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria’s parliament on Friday appointed a media magnate to oversee its state security service, a move that could rekindle popular discontent and threaten fragile political stability just weeks after an early election.
Britain asks airlines to block U.S. NSA leaker Snowden: report
(Reuters) – Britain has asked airlines worldwide to block American Edward Snowden, who leaked details of U.S. government telephone and internet surveillance programs, from boarding any plane headed for the United Kingdom, the Associated Press reported …
Anti-Mugabe hackers attack website of South Africa’s ruling ANC
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Hackers opposed to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe took out the website of the African National Congress (ANC) on Friday, accusing South Africa’s ruling party of a corrupt and bloodstained relationship with the former Britis…
Britain agrees with U.S. that chemical weapons been used in Syria
LONDON (Reuters) – British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Friday he agreed with an assessment by the United States that chemical weapons including sarin had been used in Syria by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
As India’s big parties flounder, minnows scent an election chance
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The popular expectation for India’s coming general election is that it will be a showdown between the scion of the grand old Congress party’s Nehru-Gandhi dynasty and a firebrand leader of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Pa…
Jailed China dissident’s wife decries injustice in letter to Xi
BEIJING (Reuters) – The wife of jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo has written an open letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping, protesting against her house arrest and her brother’s jailing, which activists have called official retribution on …
Wife of ousted Madagascar leader stands by bid for power
ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) – The wife of deposed Madagascar leader Marc Ravalomanana deflected international demands to pull out of a presidential election in August, telling Reuters she will be her own woman if she wins while her husband will run the fami…
Uganda summons EU ambassador over criticism of Museveni
KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda summoned the European Union’s envoy on Friday to explain his criticism of President Yoweri Museveni’s handling of corruption, underlining growing friction with the West after it cut aid over graft concerns.
