World

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Sweden’s minority, centre-left government teetered on the brink of collapse yesterday after just two months in office when a far-right party announced it would vote against the 2015 budget, effectively dooming it to defeat.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis and Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist and Christian leaders pledged yesterday to use their religions to help stamp out modern slavery and human trafficking by 2020.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Rapid evolution of HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus, is slowing its ability to cause AIDS, according to a study of more than 2,000 women in Africa.

BEIRUT, (Reuters) – The Lebanese army detained a wife and daughter of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as they crossed from Syria nine days ago, security officials said yesterday, in a move seen as likely to put pressure on the Islamist chief.

MOSCOW/KIEV, (Reuters) – In Russia, powerful friends helped him make a fortune.

KOROME, Kenya, (Reuters) – Somali al Shabaab militants killed at least 36 non-Muslim workers at a quarry in northeast Kenya today, beheading at least two of them in the same area that they hijacked a bus and killed 28 passengers just over a week ago.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama made a forceful pledge yesterday to use his last two years in office to address the “simmering distrust” between police and minority communities as he requested $263 million for the federal response to the civil rights upheaval triggered in Ferguson, Missouri.

LIMA (Reuters) – Falling oil prices show the “high risk” of fossil fuel investments compared with renewable energies, the UN’s climate chief said yesterday at the start of 190-nation talks on a deal to slow global warming.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – The Colombian general whose brief capture by Marxist FARC rebels prompted President Juan Manuel Santos to suspend peace talks resigned his from post yesterday, saying he should have taken more security precautions.

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Thousands of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists forced the temporary closure of government headquarters yesterday after clashing with police, defying orders to retreat after more than two months of sustained protests in the Chinese-controlled city.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia  accused NATO yesterday of destabilizing northern Europe and the Baltics by carrying out drills there and announced new military exercises of its own, increasing tension over the Ukraine crisis.

(Reuters) – One of the world’s most wanted war criminals, the reputed top lieutenant of Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann, is presumed to have died at least four years ago in Syria, where he lived under government protection, a leading Nazi hunter said yesterday.

DAKAR (Reuters) – Canadian candidate Michaelle Jean, a former governor general of Canada, was chosen as the next head of the international organisation of Francophone nations (OIF) at a summit in Senegal on Sunday, the OIF said in a statement.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US Attorney General Eric Holder said yesterday he would soon release new guidelines to limit racial profiling by federal law enforcement, a move long awaited by civil rights advocates.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – US officials have been in contact with Qatar’s government to ask them to allow a Los Angeles couple to return home after an appeals court threw out convictions linked to the death of their African-born adopted daughter, a State Department spokeswoman said yesterday.

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Comedian Bill Cosby has resigned from the board of trustees of Temple University, his alma mater said in a statement yesterday, after the entertainer was hit with a wave of sexual assault accusations.

BOSTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation warned U.S.

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE, (Reuters) – Pope Francis said yesterday that equating Islam with violence was wrong and called on Muslim leaders to issue a global condemnation of terrorism to help dispel the stereotype.

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Thousands of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists clashed with police last night as they tried to encircle government headquarters, defying orders from authorities to retreat after more than two months of demonstrations.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – Gold prices fell the most in more than three weeks and the Swiss franc dipped slightly today after Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected proposals to boost gold reserves in a referendum.