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| Tripoli parliament stays away from signing of Libya peace agreement | | Sunday, July 12, 2015 2:34 AM | |
| | By Aziz El Yaakoubi SKHIRAT, Morocco (Reuters) - Some Libyan warring factions signed an initial United Nations-sponsored agreement on Sunday to form a unity government and end fighting, but a key player from a parliament controlling the capital Tripoli stayed away. An armed alliance known as Libya Dawn took over Tripoli and declared its own government and parliament a year ago, driving out the internationally recognised premier and deepening anarchy in the North African country. The United Nations, wrapping up months of negotiations, had invited the warring factions to the Moroccan coastal town of Skhirat to sign an initial power-sharing agreement. |
| After slavery, trafficked fishermen face lonely road to recovery | | Sunday, July 12, 2015 2:33 AM | |
|  By Astrid Zweynert PHNOM PENH (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When hundreds of fishermen were rescued from a life of slavery on Thai fishing boats off the coast of Indonesia earlier this year, the world took notice. Trafficked and sold to work on the boats, the men - mostly from Myanmar and Cambodia - had endured beatings, abuse and torture. "Everyone is shocked when they hear about the conditions on these fishing boats - but then what?
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| Judge orders Fangio exhumation in paternity case - report | | | An Argentine judge has ordered the late Formula One great Juan Manuel Fangio's body to be exhumed in a paternity case, a media report said on Saturday. Oscar "Cacho" Espinosa, also a former racing driver, says he is the son of five-times world champion Fangio, who is buried in his home town of Balcarce in Buenos Aires province. The exhumation for DNA tests on Fangio was ordered by judge Rodrigo Castaldo, a report on the Balcarce newspaper La Vanguardia's website (www.diariolavanguardia.com) said. |
| Suicide bomber in burqa kills 15 people in Chad capital | | | By Madjiasra Nako and Moumine Ngarmbassa N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - A man dressed in a woman's burqa blew himself up in the main market in Chad's capital N'Djamena early on Saturday, killing 15 people and injuring 80, a police spokesman said. No group immediately claimed responsibility but Chad has blamed Boko Haram, the Islamist militant group based in neighbouring Nigeria, for a series of bombings and shootings in recent weeks. Chad has been at the forefront of a regional military campaign against the group. |
| U.S. air strike kills Islamic State leader in Afghanistan | | | By Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - The top Islamic State commander in Afghanistan has been killed by a U.S. air strike in the country's east, officials said on Saturday, the fourth ex-Taliban who declared loyalty to the Middle East-based militants to be assassinated within a week. Hafez Saeed was the leader of Islamic State in the "so-called Khorasan state", Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS) said, referring to an old term the militants use to describe Afghanistan and Pakistan. |
| Serbia decries "murder attempt" after PM chased from Srebrenica burial | |  By Daria Sito-Sucic and Maja Zuvela POTOCARI, Bosnia (Reuters) - A mass burial marking the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre was marred on Saturday when a crowd of mourners chased Serbia's prime minister from the cemetery, underscoring the depth of anger over Belgrade's denial of the crime as genocide. Bodyguards drove back a crowd that turned on Aleksandar Vucic moments after he entered the cemetery and laid flowers to 8,000 Muslim men and boys, executed after the U.N. safe haven fell to Bosnian Serb forces towards the end of the 1992-95 war. Serbia, which backed the Bosnian Serbs during the war with men and money, condemned the attack as an "assassination attempt".
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