Reuters: Top News

Over 20 mln people need food aid in east Africa: UN

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:39:44 +0000

ROME (Reuters) - Drought and war in eastern Africa have left more than 20 million people in desperate need of emergency food aid, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

EU and Seychelles sign anti-piracy agreement

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:03:36 +0000

VICTORIA (Reuters) - The Seychelles and the European Union signed an agreement on Tuesday that would allow the deployment of EU troops on the Indian Ocean islands to counter a maritime crime wave by Somali pirates.

Fuel tanker and bus crash in Zambia, killing 18

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:52:03 +0000

LUSAKA (Reuters) - A bus and an oil tanker collided killing 18 people and seriously injuring 47 others in Zambia, police said on Tuesday.

French aid worker seized in Chad: ICRC

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:45:23 +0000

PARIS (Reuters) - A Frenchman working for the International Committee for the Red Cross has been seized by armed men in eastern Chad, leading the aid group to temporarily suspend its activities in the region on Tuesday.

Maersk ship shakes off pirates near Seychelles

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:42:31 +0000

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Danish shipping and oil group A.P. Moller-Maersk's container ship Nele Maersk was attacked by pirates off the Somali coast on Tuesday but evaded them unharmed, a company official said.

Prosecutors to grill Taylor at war crimes trial

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:16:55 +0000

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Prosecutors at the U.N.-backed Sierra Leone court will start cross-examining Charles Taylor on Tuesday, challenging the former Liberian president on his denials of weapons trading in exchange for "blood diamonds".

Nigeria's anti-graft police arrest bank employee

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:51:08 +0000

ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's anti-corruption police arrested an employee at First City Monument Bank (FCMB) for stealing 12.5 million naira to pay for his wedding, an agency spokesman said on Tuesday.

UN warns of mass displacement without Somalia aid

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:28:55 +0000

GENEVA (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands more Somalis are on the brink of leaving their country, where floods have aggravated already desperate humanitarian conditions, United Nations agencies warned on Tuesday.

Kidnappers free two Kenyans in Mogadishu

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:06:56 +0000

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Kidnappers in the Somali capital Mogadishu have freed two Kenyan men they abducted on Sunday in the city's Bakara market, colleagues said on Tuesday.

Rwanda genocide trial starts in suspect's absence

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:19:12 +0000

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The trial of a former Rwandan bank director charged with helping fund the 1994 Rwanda genocide will go ahead despite his absence due to ill health, a Belgian court ruled on Tuesday.