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| Sudan's Bashir slams U.N. peacekeepers, demands they leave | |  CAIRO (Reuters) - A peacekeeping force in Darfur had become a security burden and should leave, Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Sunday, escalating a row that has already led to the closure a joint United Nations-African Union office in Khartoum. The Darfur conflict erupted in 2003 when mainly African tribes took up arms against the Arab-led government in Khartoum. ...
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| Uruguay votes for new president, leftist Vazquez favorite to win | |  By Malena Castaldi MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) - Uruguayans vote on Sunday for a new president with former leader Tabare Vazquez looking set to win comfortably, securing the ruling leftist coalition a third consecutive term and allowing it to roll out its pioneering marijuana law. Opinion polls give Vazquez, 74, who was president in 2005-2010, a 14 percentage point lead over Luis Lacalle Pou of the center-right National Party. ...
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| Ferguson police officer who killed black teen resigns from force | |  By Daniel Wallis and Edward McAllister FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) - The white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in a St. Louis suburb has resigned, his lawyer said on Saturday, as activists set out on a 120-mile (193-km) march to protest the killing and a grand jury's decision not to indict him. The resignation of Darren Wilson from the Ferguson, Missouri, police force comes nearly four months after he killed 18-year-old Michael Brown and days after the announcement that he would not face criminal charges. ...
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| Friday's mosque attack killed 100, wounded 135 in Nigeria's Kano - state governor | |  KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) - A total of 100 people were killed in Friday's coordinated attack on the central mosque of north Nigeria's biggest city of Kano and 135 people were wounded, the governor of Kano state said on Saturday. Rabiu Musa Kwankaso was speaking to reporters after visiting one of the hospitals treating the victims. Officials had said on Friday that 81 people had been killed in the attack. ...
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| Egyptian security forces fire tear gas and birdshot to disperse protesters - witness | |  CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces fired tear gas and birdshot and used water hoses to disperse protesters in downtown Cairo who had gathered to protest against a cout's dropping of a case against former President Hosni Mubarak on Saturday, a Reuters witness said. Around 1000 protesters were gathered near Tahrir Square and had been chanting "down with the military regime!" and slogans against Mubarak and President Abdelfattah al-Sisi. A court had dropped a case against Mubarak in connection with the deaths of 239 demonstrators in demonstrations in 2011. ...
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| Egyptian court drops case against Mubarak over 2011 protest deaths | |  By Ali Abdelaty and Maggie Fick CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court has dropped its case against former President Hosni Mubarak over the killing of protesters in the 2011 uprising that ended his 30-year rule and symbolised hopes for a new era of political openness and accountability. Mubarak, 86, was sentenced to life in prison in 2012 for conspiring to murder 239 demonstrators, sowing chaos and creating a security vacuum during the 18-day revolt, but an appeals court ordered a retrial. ...
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| Sarkozy wins French UMP party leadership but rivals defiant | |  By Pauline Mevel and Gregory Blachier PARIS (Reuters) - Nicolas Sarkozy won the leadership of the conservative UMP on Saturday, a potential step towards a bid to be French president for a second time, but his victory was not decisive enough to cow his rivals in the party. After losing the presidency to Socialist Francois Hollande in 2012, Sarkozy made a storming comeback in September, although recent polls showed his popularity among members of the crisis-torn UMP wavering. Sarkozy won 64.5 percent of the vote. ...
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