Mozambique to appeal South African ruling to set aside extradition of ex-finance minister
Mozambique’s government plans to appeal a South African court’s decision to revoke the planned extradition of former finance minister Manuel Chang, wanted in both his home country and the United States, a letter seen by Reuters on Wednesday showed.
Iran’s Rouhani says Fordow enrichment site will soon be fully operational
Iran’s underground uranium enrichment Fordow facility “will soon be back to full operation”, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani tweeted, a few hours after Tehran announced that uranium gas had been injected into centrifuges at the site on Wednesday.
Iran starts injecting uranium gas into centrifuges at Fordow: TV
Iran has started to inject uranium gas into centrifuges at its underground Fordow nuclear facility, state TV reported on Wednesday, further distancing itself from a 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers that curbed its atomic work.
Nuclear inspectors on ground after Iran says enriching at Fordow
U.N. nuclear inspectors are on the ground in Iran and will report back on relevant activities, an International Atomic Energy Agency spokesman said on Wednesday after Iran said it injected uranium gas into centrifuges at its Fordow site.
Chileans debate in the streets in ‘first act of revolution’ to determine their future
Harnessing the same energy that has galvanized millions of people to take to the streets in protest, a spectacle unseen since the bloody fight against a dictatorship three decades ago, Chileans have organized town halls to take the country’s future int…
Some Nigerians blame government, not religious leaders, for shocking school abuses
The first thing 15-year-old Burhani saw when he arrived at an Islamic reformatory school in October was rows of youths and young men sitting on a courtyard floor, naked, bleeding and in chains.
UK’s Johnson begins election battle, vowing Brexit and casting rival as ‘Stalin’
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson kicks off his election campaign on Wednesday vowing to “get Brexit done” in contrast to his main rival, whom he compared to Soviet leader Josef Stalin who sent millions to their deaths in labor camps.
Militants attack Tajik border post, 17 killed: security officials
Masked Islamic State militants attacked a border post on the Tajik-Uzbek border overnight, triggering a gun battle that killed 15 of the militants, a guard and a policeman, Tajik authorities said on Wednesday.
Pompeo says U.S. troubled by reports of China harassing families of Uighur activists
The United States is deeply troubled by reports the Chinese government has “harassed, imprisoned, or arbitrarily detained” relatives of Uighur Muslim activists and survivors of internment camps who have made their stories public, U.S. Secretary of Stat…
Iraqi security forces use live fire to disperse Baghdad protesters
Iraqi security forces opened fire on Wednesday to disperse protesters gathered on a bridge in central Baghdad, shooting live bullets in the air, a Reuters witness said.
