Central African Republic children starve as aid workers flee fighting
GENEVA (Reuters) – Children are starving to death in Central African Republic because violence has forced aid workers to pull out, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator for the country said on Tuesday.
Venezuela defends vote, opposition divided over fraud claim
CARACAS (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro’s leftist government defended Venezuela’s election system on Tuesday as his opponents struggled to present a united front on allegations of fraud after a nationwide weekend vote.
After victory in Raqqa over IS, Kurds face tricky peace
RAQQA, Syria/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Kurdish groups who led the fight against Islamic State in its former capital Raqqa must navigate a complex peace to avoid ethnic tension with the city’s Arab majority and to secure critical U.S. aid.
Iran aircraft deals hang by thread as Trump targets Tehran
PARIS (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s hawkish new approach towards Tehran, coupled with banking worries and domestic political turbulence in both countries, are causing growing uncertainty over Iran’s $36 billion deal to buy airliners from Boeing,…
Taliban attacks kill at least 69 across Afghanistan
KABUL (Reuters) – Taliban militants struck government targets in many provinces of Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 69 people, including a senior police commander, and wounding scores of others.
Catalonia refuses to renounce independence, anti-government protests form
MADRID/BARCELONA (Reuters) – Catalonia refused on Tuesday to bow to the Spanish government’s demand that it renounce a symbolic declaration of independence, setting it on a political collision course with Madrid later this week.
Hungary eases pressure on international universities in Soros row
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary has extended a deadline for a U.S.-accredited Budapest university founded by George Soros, philanthropist financier and prominent critic of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government, to comply with a new education law or fac…
POLITICS: Xi Jinping’s compliant generation
(Reuters) – The relative stability and comfort around them as they grew up, plus the steady drip of propaganda, have engendered a deep sense of patriotism in the “Class of 2012”.
Islamic State defeated in its Syrian capital Raqqa
RAQQA, Syria (Reuters) – U.S.-backed militias in Syria declared victory over Islamic State in its capital Raqqa on Tuesday, raising flags over the last jihadist footholds after a four-month battle.
Madrid, Catalonia clash over jailed pro-independence leaders as protests called
MADRID/BARCELONA (Reuters) – Authorities in Madrid and Barcelona locked horns over whether two jailed Catalan pro-independence leaders were political prisoners, as their detention looked set to reignite secessionist protests.
