Rebels fend off Aleppo assault as nations seek to rebuild peace process
AMMAN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Syrian rebels said on Tuesday they had repelled an army offensive in southern Aleppo as Russian and Syrian warplanes pounded residential areas, while nations spoke of rebuilding a peace process the United States broke off thi…
Syria peace efforts must continue despite break with Russia: Kerry
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday efforts to end Syria’s war must continue despite Washington’s decision to break off talks with Moscow over what he called its “irresponsible” support for President Bashar al-Assad….
Elections over, Brazil tackles unpopular spending reforms
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Michel Temer’s government introduced to Congress on Tuesday a landmark constitutional amendment to cap public spending, seeking to press ahead with unpopular reforms in the wake of last weekend’s municipal elect…
Philippine leader tells Obama ‘go to hell’, says can buy arms from Russia, China
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Opposition MP’s car explodes in Georgia’s capital, injuring passersby
TBILISI (Reuters) – A Georgian opposition lawmaker was unhurt when his car exploded in the capital Tbilisi on Tuesday but five passersby were injured, Rustavi-2 television reported, just three days ahead of a parliamentary election.
Guinea Bissau’s ex-navy chief sentenced in prison in U.S. drug case
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former navy chief of Guinea-Bissau who was arrested three years ago in a U.S. drug sting off the West African coast was sentenced on Tuesday to four years in prison, most of which he has already served, for conspiring to facilita…
Turkey suspends 13,000 police officers, shuts down TV station
ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish authorities suspended nearly 13,000 police officers, detained dozens of air force officers and shut down a TV station on Tuesday, widening a state-ordered clampdown against perceived enemies in the wake of July’s fai…
Egyptian parliament approves civil service law after rare defiance of Sisi
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s parliament approved a civil service law on Tuesday aimed at combating corruption and bureaucracy after making amendments to the bill, the only one it had previously rejected out of hundreds put forward by President Abdel Fatta…
India to see ‘big conflicts’ over forest land despite law: activist
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Indian officials have been slow to implement a landmark law giving rights to forests to indigenous people because they view it as a handicap to development projects spurring expansion in the fast-growing economy, a…
Burundi opposition leader released after days in police custody
NAIROBI (Reuters) – The head of one of Burundi’s opposition parties has been released, days after he was arrested for what police said was collaborating with “armed gangs”, a spokesman for an opposition coalition said on Tuesday.
