By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepali police shot dead at least two demonstrators and injured about a dozen others on Monday after they attacked buildings during a protest against proposals for administrative reform in the Himalayan country. Local police official Rajesh Kumar Lal Karna told Reuters the protesters had defied a curfew in the town of Surkhet and had begun throwing stones at public and private buildings.
Ecuador denied on Monday that it had requested Sweden grant asylum for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a condition for allowing Swedish prosecutors to question him in London. “At no point has the Republic of Ecuador asked the Kingdom of Sweden to grant Mr. Assange asylum,” the embassy said in a statement. Sweden says any questioning has been stalled since asylum has been one of Ecuador’s demands for the meeting,
Ecuador denied on Monday that it had requested Sweden grant asylum for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a condition for allowing Swedish prosecutors to question him in London. “At no point has the Republic of Ecuador asked the Kingdom of Sweden to grant Mr. Assange asylum,” the embassy said in a statement. Sweden says any questioning has been stalled since asylum has been one of Ecuador’s demands for the meeting,
A British court has freed Rwanda’s intelligence chief Karenzi Karake, officials said on Monday, after he was arrested in June on a warrant issued in Spain where he was wanted over alleged reprisal killings after the 1994 genocide. Officials did not immediately provide further details but a fuller statement from Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service was expected shortly. Rwanda had condemned as an “outrage” the arrest of Karake.
A British court has freed Rwanda’s intelligence chief Karenzi Karake, officials said on Monday, after he was arrested in June on a warrant issued in Spain where he was wanted over alleged reprisal killings after the 1994 genocide. Officials did not immediately provide further details but a fuller statement from Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service was expected shortly. Rwanda had condemned as an “outrage” the arrest of Karake.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabweans failed in their responsibility to protect a popular lion named Cecil that was killed by an American in an allegedly illegal hunt, President Robert Mugabe said Monday.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabweans failed in their responsibility to protect a popular lion named Cecil that was killed by an American in an allegedly illegal hunt, President Robert Mugabe said Monday.
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s foreign minister said Monday his North Korean counterpart has invited Thai businesses to invest in his country because Thais are trustworthy and don’t interfere with matters that don’t involve them.
Prominent Syrian rights defender Mazen Darwish has been released after more than three years in prison pending a verdict in his case at the end of this month, his wife said Monday. “He has been freed ahead of a final verdict in his case on August 31,” Darwish’s wife Yara Bader told AFP. The leading journalist and rights activist was arrested in February 2012 along with two colleagues from his
Police say the man opened fire on them during protests one year after Michael Brown’s death.