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Child abuse by aid workers and peacekeepers rife: study

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:39
LONDON (Reuters) - Sexual abuse of children by aid workers and peacekeepers is rife and efforts to protect young people are inadequate, said a report published on Tuesday.

Speak English, child! This is Korea

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:39
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's "wild geese fathers" manage a reunion with their children, and often wives, just once a year after seeing them off for study abroad, invariably to learn in English.

Canadian foreign minister quits over secret papers

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:39
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier resigned on Monday after it emerged he had left classified documents in the apartment of a former girlfriend who was once linked to organized crime figures.

Darfur rebels threaten Khartoum as peace hopes fade

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:39
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A Darfur rebel group threatened on Monday to launch new attacks on Khartoum and central Sudan, amid fears that the region's peace process was unraveling.

Small Rwandan Hutu rebel group in Congo to disarm

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:39
KISANGANI, Congo (Reuters) - A small faction of Rwandan Hutu rebels in east Democratic Republic of Congo pledged on Monday to lay down their guns and return home, but the main rebel movement refused and rejected the ceremony as a sham.

Canadian foreign minister quits over secret papers

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:39
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier resigned on Monday after admitting that he had left classified documents in an unsafe place, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said.

Nearly 100 held in Chile dictatorship abuse probe

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:39
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Nearly 100 former Chilean soldiers and secret police from Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship were ordered detained on Monday in the biggest single mass arrest for abuses during the period, judicial sources said.

Mexico Navy hunts for sharks after attacks

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:39
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Mexican Navy searched for sharks in the ocean near Pacific surfing beaches on Monday, after two bathers were killed and another maimed in a rare spate of shark attacks.

S.Africa anti-foreign violence said under control

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:39
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa said on Monday violent attacks on immigrants which have killed 56 people in the last fortnight were under control.

Activists see strong cluster bomb ban this week

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:39
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Progress has been made towards agreeing a wide-ranging global ban on cluster munitions this week, though three of the most controversial issues are still unresolved, campaigners said on Monday.

Darfur rebels threaten Khartoum as peace hopes fade

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:39
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A Darfur rebel group threatened on Monday to launch new attacks on Khartoum and central Sudan, amid fears that the region's peace process was unraveling.

Serbia denies genocide at World Court

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:39
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Serbia denied it was guilty of genocide during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia on Monday, opening its defense before the U.N.'s highest court against Croatian allegations of ethnic cleansing.

Russia frees suspect in Politkovskaya murder case

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:39
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has released a man suspected of involvement in the 2006 murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya because he was not directly involved in the shooting, his lawyer said on Monday.

U.S., Iran and Arab neighbors to meet on Iraq

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:39
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The United States will prod Sunni Arab states to offer more support to the Iraqi government at a conference in Sweden this week as a way of countering the growing influence of non-Arab Iran in Iraq.

Olmert says he gave no commitment on Golan

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:39
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday Israel had made no commitment to Syria to pull out of the Golan Heights in indirect talks that began last year under Turkish auspices.

Catholics hope Turkey opens church for St Paul Year

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:39
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Church hopes a year dedicated to Saint Paul, born two millennia ago in Tarsus in today's southern Turkey, will bring signs of more religious tolerance in the mostly Muslim but secularist country.

Sudan on verge of north-south war: SPLM official

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:39
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The secretary-general of the former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) said on Monday his country was on the brink of a new north-south civil war, and called on northern forces to leave a disputed oil town.

Dubai police crack down on cross-dressers

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:39
DUBAI (Reuters) - Police in Dubai have arrested several men and women for cross-dressing in what they said was a campaign to preserve the social values of the cosmopolitan Gulf Arab trade and tourism hub, newspapers reported on Monday.

Eight killed in Sri Lanka train bombing

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:39
COLOMBO (Reuters) - At least eight people were killed and 73 civilians injured when a bomb exploded on a train during rush hour in the Sri Lankan capital on Monday, military officials said.

Belgian double child murder trial begins

Tue, 2024-11-26 20:39
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The trial of a man charged with the sexual assault and murder of two Belgian girls in 2006 began on Monday, reviving painful memories of the Marc Dutroux pedophile killings a decade ago.