MADRID (Reuters) – Catalan parties favoring a split from Spain can only win a majority in regional elections in September if they run as an alliance, a poll showed on Sunday, as the campaign for independence shows signs of flagging.
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Iran, powers near to historic deal; U.S. says tough issues remain
VIENNA (Reuters) – After more than two weeks of marathon negotiations, Iran and six world powers were close to nailing down an historic nuclear deal that would bring sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on Tehran’s atomic program, diplomats said on S…
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After slavery, trafficked fishermen face lonely road to recovery
PHNOM PENH (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When hundreds of fishermen were rescued from a life of slavery on Thai fishing boats off the coast of Indonesia earlier this year, the world took notice.
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Talks with Boko Haram reopened, government not involved: activist
ABUJA (Reuters) – Fresh negotiations have started with Boko Haram militants for the release of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped last year but the Nigerian government is not currently involved in the talks, a human rights activist said on Friday.
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Al Shabaab says it attacked two hotels in Somali capital
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia’s al Shabaab Islamist militant group said it attacked two hotels in the capital Mogadishu on Friday evening.
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Progress for women and children in India health survey may offer global lessons
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Simple interventions such as using community workers to promote breast-feeding in villages have helped India improve the health of its women and children and could be good global examples, say aid workers, citin…
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Iran, powers give themselves to Monday for nuclear deal
VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran and major powers gave themselves until Monday to reach a nuclear agreement, their third extension in two weeks, as Tehran accused the West of throwing up new stumbling blocks to a deal.
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Yemen’s warring parties endorse truce from midnight as fighting rages
ADEN (Reuters) – Yemen’s main warring factions endorsed a U.N.-brokered humanitarian truce from midnight on Friday although heavy fighting on the ground and Saudi air strikes carried on relentlessly.
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World’s poorest need $160 a year to end hunger: U.N.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Just $160 per year for each person living in extreme poverty would eradicate world hunger by 2030, the United Nations said on Friday, recommending the money should be delivered through both cash transfers and “pro-…
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World looks to Ethiopia to break deadlock over financing new development goals
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Negotiators locked horns until 2 a.m. some nights in New York this past month, trying to agree on a way to finance the United Nation’s bold new global development agenda — without success.
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