Ex-President Carter says China pressuring Nepal on Tibetans
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – China is putting pressure on Nepal to interrupt the flow of Tibetan refugees into the Himalayan nation, former United States President Jimmy Carter said on Monday.
Peace restored in stronghold of Kenya’s election loser Odinga
KISUMU, Kenya (Reuters) – Calm returned to the western Kenyan stronghold of defeated presidential candidate Raila Odinga on Monday after two days of running battles with police following the Supreme Court’s confirmation of his rival Uhuru Kenyatta as p…
Central bank to reopen in Central African Republic after coup
BANGUI (Reuters) – Central Africa’s regional central bank said it would reopen its branch in Bangui on Tuesday, and urged commercial lenders to do the same, offering a financial lifeline to cash-starved businesses a week after a coup.
Hamas law promotes gender segregation in Gaza schools
GAZA (Reuters) – New rules from the Education Ministry of the Islamist Hamas movement ruling the Gaza Strip will bar men from teaching at girls’ schools and mandate separate classes for boys and girls from the age of nine.
Kosovo and Serbia near accord to end ethnic partition
MITROVICA, Kosovo (Reuters) – It’s a dangerous job being a municipal clerk in the Kosovan town of Mitrovica, where the Ibar river forms a natural barrier between Serbs and Albanians.
South Korea vows fast response to North; U.S. deploys stealth jets
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea will strike back quickly if the North stages any attack, the new president in Seoul warned on Monday, as tensions ratcheted higher on the Korean peninsula amid shrill rhetoric from Pyongyang and the U.S. deployment of rada…
North Korea names Kim clan associate to premiership
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea named former premier Pak Pong-ju, a key confidant of the leadership dynasty who was sacked in 2007 for failing to implement economic reforms, as its cabinet chief on Monday in a move that would further cement the ruling fa…
Bulgaria’s ousted center-right extends lead before May poll
SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria’s center-right GERB party, which was forced from power by nationwide protests in February, has extended its lead ahead of elections in May which are likely to produce a hung parliament, an Alpha Research poll showed on Monday…
Private dailies re-emerge in Myanmar, face difficulties
YANGON (Reuters) – Four private dailies hit the newsstands for the first time in almost 50 years in Myanmar on Monday, but many others failed to appear, hamstrung by poor financing, archaic equipment and a dearth of reporters.
Suicide bomber in fuel truck kills nine in Iraq’s Tikrit
TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) – A suicide bomber drove an oil tanker packed with explosives into a local Iraqi government compound on Monday, killing at least nine people, mostly policemen, in the northern city of Tikrit.
