Obama urges Africa to follow spirit of Nelson Mandela
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said on Sunday the United States would help propel Africa along a path of prosperity and peace, and urged the continent to follow the example of Nelson Mandela.
Pakistan utility company fights to power chaotic port megacity
KARACHI (Reuters) – Since Pakistan’s biggest electricity company was privatized, its headquarters have been looted, its employees kidnapped and the government tried to arrest its boss.
Partiers outnumber protesters in Rio at Confederations Cup final
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – The climax of a major international soccer tournament that provided the backdrop for the biggest mass protests to sweep Brazil in 20 years was set to kick off late Sunday as scattered demonstrations proceeded amid an otherwis…
Kazakhstan trade trip poses human rights test for UK’s Cameron
ATYRAU, Kazakhstan (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron helped inaugurate the world’s costliest oil project in Kazakhstan on Sunday on a trip aimed at sealing business deals but quickly beset by questions over the Central Asian nation’s poo…
Bomb kills 12 soccer players, fans in Iraq
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A bomb planted near a yard where people were playing soccer in Iraq killed 12 people on Sunday, police and medics said.
Blast in Pakistani city of Quetta kills at least 28
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – At least 28 people were killed and dozens wounded in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Sunday when a suicide bomber attacked a largely Shi’ite Muslim neighborhood, police said.
Kurdish protesters clash with Turkish security forces
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Police fired teargas and water cannon on Sunday to disperse thousands of protesters in Diyarbakir, the main city in Turkey’s Kurdish-dominated southeast, during demonstrations across the country to pressure the government…
Gunmen free 175 prisoners in Nigeria jailbreak
ONITSHA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Gunmen shot dead two civilians and then used explosives to free 175 inmates from a prison in Nigeria’s southern town of Akure overnight, a prison official said on Sunday.
Obama says Zimbabwe has opportunity, needs free and fair poll
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday Zimbabwe’s economic recovery gave the southern African country an opportunity to advance but only if upcoming elections were “free and fair.”
Ecuador’s Correa says Snowden’s fate in hands of Russia
PORTOVIEJO, Ecuador (Reuters) – Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said on Sunday the fate of former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden is in the hands of the authorities in Russia, where he is holed up in hope of obtaining asylum in the South…
