DONETSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – The Ukrainian military and pro-Russian separatists accused each other on Sunday of shelling residential districts of separatist-held Donetsk overnight, the first attack on central parts of the city since a February ceasefir…

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The Mexican Attorney General’s office said on Friday it had arrested seven officials over suspected involvement in the jail break of drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.

ADEN (Reuters) – Saudi-backed Yemeni fighters completed their offensive to retake the southern city of Aden from the Houthi militia on Friday, residents said, as fighting in one main district subsided.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Women jailed in a Kigali prison for murdering their Tutsi neighbors in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide talk about the killings as if they are still trying to justify why they took part in one of the most notorious mass kill…

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Eighty-five percent of India’s family planning budget is used to promote and conduct sterilizations on women, the head of a prominent charity said on Friday, calling for more funds to be channeled towards provid…

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More than 95 percent of women surveyed in a new U.S. study said they didn’t regret having an abortion and felt that the procedure was the right decision for them.

ATHENS (Reuters) – Europe moved to re-open funding to Greece’s stricken economy on Thursday, hours after a fractious Greek parliament approved a tough bailout program in a vote that left the government without a majority and looking to new elections wi…

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Transgender people in Ireland have won legal recognition of their status through the passage of a law allowing them to change their legal gender with no medical or state intervention.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Talks to improve diplomatic relations between the United States and Venezuela’s socialist government do not include discussion of releasing opposition demonstrators jailed as a result of protests in 2014, Venezuela’s foreign ministe…

ADDIS ABABA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Africa is likely to benefit from weak global growth by attracting more investment that will drive its development, experts said at a financing conference in Ethiopia on Wednesday.