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| Exit poll in Kosovo puts ruling party narrowly ahead | | | PRISTINA (Reuters) - An exit poll in Kosovo gave the ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) a narrow lead on Sunday with 33 percent in a parliamentary election marked by frustration among Kosovars over poverty and corruption. Official results were due later in the evening. The exit poll, conducted by the Gani Bobi social research institute, put the opposition Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) in second place with 30 percent. (Writing by Matt Robinson; Editing by Fatos Bytyci) |
| Sisi says in first speech to nation fighting terrorism will be top priority | | | CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in his first speech to the nation on Sunday that he will focus on fighting terrorism in the "coming phase". "Defeating terrorism and achieving security is the top priority in our coming phase," said Sisi hours after being sworn in, referring to his Islamist opponents. (Writing by Michael Georgy) |
| World leaders face pressure to act against sexual violence at UK summit | | | By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON (Reuters) - The kidnapping of 200 Nigerian girls and several recent horrific murders of women is expected to raise pressure on the world community to take concrete action to punish those responsible for sexual violence at a global summit in London this week. Invited by Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie and British Foreign Secretary William Hague, government ministers, military and judicial leaders and aid workers from about 150 nations will join the first global summit to end sexual violence in conflict. The June 10-13 summit follows a run of shocking cases of violence against women including the kidnap of schoolgirls by Islamist Boko Haram, the stoning to death of a pregnant woman in Pakistan in a so-called "honour killing", and the gang-rape and murder of two Indian teenagers who were hanged from a tree. Hague said too often those who committed these crimes never faced justice and the summit would agree the first international protocol on how to document and investigate sexual violence in conflicts. |
| Sudan arrests second opposition leader in under a month | | | By Khalid Abdel Aziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese authorities on Sunday arrested the head of Sudan's opposition Congress Party, a party official said, weeks after the arrest of another opposition leader, Sadiq al-Mahdi, sparked violent anti-government protests. The arrests are likely to hurt national dialogue talks that were called by President Omar Hassan al-Bashir in order to ease tension among Sudan's political parties ahead of parliamentary and presidential polls due next year. Opposition parties in Sudan have voiced concern about the government's mismanagement of Darfur, accusing it of killing civilians during a recent surge of violence in the region. |
| French National Front's J-M Le Pen in new anti-Semitism row | | | By James Regan and Sophie Louet PARIS (Reuters) - Jean-Marie Le Pen, honorary president of France's National Front (FN), has plunged the party into hot water over new allegations of anti-Semitism only weeks after a stunning poll victory won in part by playing down some old far-right stands. Le Pen drew criticism from Jewish groups and even some prominent members of his own party at the weekend for a quip about a French Jewish singer that appeared to include an implied reference to concentration camp ovens used in the Holocaust. Still combative at 85, Le Pen said only "political enemies or imbeciles" would interpret his comments as anti-Semitic, but the party withdrew from its website the weekly video interview in which Le Pen lashed out at the FN's critics. The National Front, now led by his pragmatic daughter Marine, took first place in France in the European Parliament election two weeks ago, the first time the anti-immigrant, anti-EU party had won a nationwide poll in its four-decade history. |
| Sisi sworn in as Egypt's president, cool reception from West | |  By Shadia Nasralla and Maggie Fick CAIRO (Reuters) - Former Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi promised to rule in an inclusive manner after he was sworn in as president on Sunday in a ceremony with low-key attendance by Western allies concerned by a crackdown on dissent. Last month's election, which officials said Sisi won with 97 percent of the vote, followed three years of upheaval since a popular uprising ended 30 years of rule by former air force commander Hosni Mubarak. Security in Cairo was extra tight, with armoured personnel carriers and tanks positioned in strategic locations as Sisi spoke to foreign dignitaries after a 21-gun salute at Cairo's main presidential palace. "Throughout its extended history over thousands of years our country has never witnessed a democratic peaceful handover of power," said Sisi, the sixth Egyptian leader with a military background.
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| Blast kills at least three outside Nigerian barracks - witnesses | | | By Isaac Abrak and Lanre Ola ABUJA/MAIDUGURI Nigeria (Reuters) - An explosion killed at least three people outside an army barracks in Nigeria's northeastern city of Gombe on Sunday, witnesses said, as local leaders reported the death count from a string of earlier attacks had reached 110. No one claimed responsibility for the blast or last week's assaults but Islamist group Boko Haram has set off bombs and killed thousands in its five-year-old bid to carve out an Islamist state in the region. "I heard a loud sound and then black smoke covering the place ... We saw soldiers moving bodies," Gombe trader Bello Kasuwankatako told Reuters. Boko Haram - which dominated world headlines by kidnapping more than 200 schoolgirls in April - has fought back against an army offensive, piling political pressure on President Goodluck Jonathan and the military to end the carnage. |
| Palestinians close shops, rally for hunger-striking prisoners | |  Shops were shuttered in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday in solidarity with nearly 300 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike against Israeli detention without trial. In Hebron, also in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, dozens of Palestinian protesters marched in the streets in support of the hunger strikers. The hunger strike was begun on April 24 by a group of 120 prisoners held under what Israel terms "administrative detention" - or incarceration without trial of Palestinians suspected of security offences. They were later joined by 170 other inmates who also demanded that Israel abolish the procedure, which has drawn international criticism.
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| Poverty, graft test Kosovo ex-rebel's bid for third term | | | By Fatos Bytyci and Matt Robinson PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo voted in an election on Sunday marked by voter frustration over poverty and corruption six years after seceding from Serbia, testing ex-guerrilla Hashim Thaci's bid for a third term as prime minister. Some analysts expect the closest race since 46-year-old Thaci presided over Kosovo's Western-backed declaration of independence in 2008. Frustration with Kosovo's progress is running high among many of its 1.8 million people, who rank among Europe's poorest. Voting appeared to be slow among ethnic Serbs in a pocket of northern Kosovo that the European Union is trying to integrate in agreement with Serbia. |
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