WORLD HEADLINES
By Maria Tsvetkova MOSCOW/DONETSK (Reuters) – Some Russian soldiers are quitting the army because of the conflict in Ukraine, several soldiers and human rights activists have told Reuters. Their accounts call into question the Kremlin’s continued assertions that no Russian soldiers have been sent to Ukraine, and that any Russians fighting alongside rebels there are volunteers. Evidence for Russians fighting in Ukraine – Russian army equipment found in the country,
By Mohammed Ghobari and Mohammed Mukhashaf CAIRO/ADEN (Reuters) – Yemen’s dominant Houthi group accepted on Sunday a five-day humanitarian ceasefire proposed by its adversary Saudi Arabia but said it would respond to any violations of the pause. Neighboring Saudi Arabia had said on Friday that the ceasefire could begin on Tuesday if the Iranian-allied militia agreed to the pause, which would let in badly needed food and medical supplies. Backed
By Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said after talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday that the peace process in eastern Ukraine was progressing despite difficulties. Merkel reaffirmed her support for the peace efforts and repeated her calls to Putin to use his influence with pro-Russian separatists battling Kiev government forces to end a conflict in which more than 6,000 people have been killed since
By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) – David Cameron can thank Britain’s winner-takes-all voting system for handing him an outright majority in parliament on just 37 percent of the vote. By Sunday morning, 100,000 people had signed a petition launched by the society and another campaign group, Unlock Democracy, that states: “The 2015 general election has shown once and for all that our voting system is broken beyond repair.” It urges
A gunman killed three relatives and a neighbor in a late-night rampage in a Swiss village before turning his weapon on himself, local police said on Sunday. The presumed killer, a 36-year-old Swiss national who was separated from his wife and the couple’s three children, shot dead his father-in-law, mother-in-law and brother-in-law, police told a news conference.
Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saadi who fled abroad during Libya’s 2011 revolution and was extradited from Niger last year appeared in a Tripoli court on Sunday at the start of a trial on murder charges but the judge adjourned his case until July. Saadi, who had a brief career as a soccer player in Italy and had the reputation of a playboy during his father’s long rule, appeared in the Tripoli
Shooting broke out for a second day between police and gunmen in north Macedonia Sunday as concern mounted in Europe over alleged ethnic-Albanian unrest that has left at least 22 people dead. “Eight police officers were killed and 37 were injured” in gun battles in Kumanovo that began at dawn Saturday, police spokesman Ivo Kotevski told reporters, saying the assailants were from “a particularly dangerous terrorist group” whose members included
ROME (AP) — Local wild card Matteo Donati made his ATP Tour debut a match to remember, rallying to upset 49th-ranked Santiago Giraldo of Colombia 2-6, 6-1, 6-4 Sunday in the opening round of the Italian Open.
South Africa’s main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, on Sunday elected its first black leader, a major step in its bid to present itself as an alternative to the ruling African National Congress (ANC). Mmusi Maimane, aged just 34, joined the DA in 2009 and was fast-tracked through the ranks by Helen Zille, who stood down as party leader after eight years in office.
MILAN (AP) — Atalanta clung on to win 3-2 at Palermo to boost its chances of avoiding the drop and ensure Cesena, which was beaten 3-2 by Sassuolo, was relegated from Serie A on Sunday.