Kenya civil servants brought to court in handcuffs to face theft charges
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan authorities brought 24 civil servants and business people to court in handcuffs on Tuesday to hear charges against them amid an investigation into the theft of nearly $100 million of public funds.
Man who attacked Russian art masterpiece says driven by ideology
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A man who attacked and damaged a masterpiece of Russian painting with a metal pole said on Tuesday he had acted for ideological reasons to rescue the reputation of a tsar, recanting an earlier confession that the vandalism was fueled…
Egypt’s Sisi to visit Sudan in October amid tensions
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will visit Khartoum in October to seal several bilateral deals, Sudan’s foreign minister said on Tuesday during a visit to Cairo, at a time of fraught relations between the neighbors.
Explainer: The man sent by North Korea leader to U.S. for high-level talks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When Kim Yong Chol lands in New York this week, he will become the most senior North Korean envoy to hold talks with American officials on U.S. soil in 18 years.
Senior North Korea envoy to hold talks in U.S. about summit
SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A senior North Korean official is headed to New York for talks with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the latest indication that an on-again-off-again summit between President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader may go…
‘Radicalised’ Belgian convict kills three before being shot dead
LIEGE, Belgium (Reuters) – A man killed two policewomen and a bystander in the Belgian city of Liege on Tuesday before being gunned down at a school in what officials say was a terrorist attack by a radicalized “lone wolf” just out of prison.
Merkel says political hate speech is ‘playing with fire’
SOLINGEN, Germany (Reuters) – Far-right politicians in Germany who engage in xenophobic rhetoric are not just testing free-speech limits but are inciting violence, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday.
Brazil’s Temer says no threat of a coup amid truckers’ protest
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian President Michel Temer said on Tuesday there was no chance that a nationwide truckers’ protest that has paralyzed Latin America’s biggest economy will spark a military coup and topple his government.
Most senior North Korean envoy to hold official talks in U.S. in 18 years
SEOUL (Reuters) – A senior North Korean official is headed to New York to discuss an upcoming summit, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, the latest indication that an on-again-off-again meeting between Trump and North Korea’s leader may go ah…
Attacker kills three in Liege, dies after gunbattle with police
LIEGE, Belgium (Reuters) – A man killed two policewomen and a bystander in the Belgian city of Liege on Tuesday before being shot dead in a gunbattle at a school in what prosecutors are treating as a terrorist attack.
