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| Gambia president says flying home after gunfire rocks Banjul |
| Wednesday, December 31, 2014 2:06 AM | |
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 BANJUL (Reuters) - Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh said he was returning home from Chad late on Tuesday, after gunfire erupted around the presidential palace in the Gambian capital of Banjul last night. The government denied reports of an attempted coup, but a diplomat said gunmen had attacked Gambia's State House. Although shooting had died down, a senior West African diplomat told Reuters gunmen controlled parts of the capital on Tuesday. Jammeh was abroad, either in France or Dubai, when the violence broke out. ...
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| Cuban open mic protest thwarted after dissidents detained |
| Wednesday, December 31, 2014 12:45 AM | |
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 By Daniel Trotta HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban police detained several dissidents on Tuesday and thwarted an unauthorized political protest, dissidents said, in the first major test of U.S. President Barack Obama's policy shift toward normalizing relations with the communist-ruled island. The U.S. State Department condemned the detentions, which marked the most significant crackdown on the opposition since Cuba and the United States agreed on Dec. 17 to restore diplomatic ties and put behind more than five decades of hostility. ...
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| Nine dead in related homicides in western Canada city |
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| CALGARY (Reuters) - Nine people have been killed in three related incidents in Edmonton in what police in the western Canadian city said was likely an act of domestic violence and the worst mass murder in nearly 60 years. Eight people were killed, seven in one location and the eighth in another, police said, and a man linked to the crimes committed suicide in a nearby town. Two of the victims were children while four women and two men were also dead in what Rod Knecht, the city's chief of police, called an act of domestic violence. ... |
| Insight - As U.S.-led combat mission ends, Afghan women fear oppression |
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 By Jessica Donati KABUL (Reuters) - No one ever claimed responsibility after a suicide bomber rammed into the vehicle of celebrated female parliamentarian Shukria Barakzai. She walked away from the wreckage after the Nov. 16 blast that killed three civilians and wounded 20. The Taliban often takes responsibility for suicide bombings - it did so for one against the British embassy that killed six people days later. Barakzai, 42, said Afghanistan's spy agency had warned her before about threats to her life from the insurgent group. ...
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| Cuban dissidents say Yoani Sanchez's husband, others detained in Havana |
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By Daniel Trotta HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban police detained at least four political opponents on Tuesday, including the husband of prominent blogger Yoani Sanchez, hours before a performance artist planned to stage an unauthorized open microphone event, dissidents said. They would be the highest profile detentions since Cuba and the United States agreed on Dec. 17 to normalize diplomatic relations and put behind more than five decades of hostility. ...
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