Food riots kill one more in Venezuela: legislator
CARACAS (Reuters) – A man was shot dead on Tuesday during looting and food riots proliferating round crisis-hit Venezuela, an opposition legislator said, bringing to at least four the number of fatalities from this month’s wave of unrest.
Brazil congressional ethics committee strips Cunha of his seat
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s congressional ethics committee voted to strip suspended Speaker Eduardo Cunha of his seat on Tuesday for allegedly lying about undeclared Swiss bank accounts, the latest in a series of political earthquakes to rock Latin A…
U.S. Third Fleet expands East Asia role as tensions rise with China
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy’s Third Fleet will send more ships to East Asia to operate outside its normal theater alongside the Japan-based Seventh Fleet, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, a move that comes at a time of heightened tensions with…
Brazil’s Rousseff has presidential perks cut
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s suspended President Dilma Rousseff said on Tuesday that the country’s interim government has suspended her use of Air Force planes and will no longer pay her hotel bills.
French police couple killed in attack claimed by Islamic State
PARIS/LES MUREAUX (Reuters) – A Frenchman who pledged allegiance to Islamic State stabbed a police commander to death outside his home and killed his partner, who also worked for the police, in an attack the government denounced as “an abject act of te…
Islamic scholar in homosexuality comments row leaves Australia
SYDNEY (Reuters) – A British Islamic scholar who toured Orlando this year and had preached in 2013 that “death is the sentence” for homosexual acts left Australia on Tuesday after the government launched an “urgent” review of his visa because of his co…
Boko Haram kidnaps three women near Chibok town in north Nigeria
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Boko Haram jihadists killed at least four villagers on Tuesday and kidnapped three women near the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok where the group snatched more than 200 girls two years ago, residents and survivors sa…
Kerry launches talks with Venezuela but backs disputed referendum
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced high-level talks to ease tensions with Venezuela’s socialist government on Tuesday, just hours after he backed calls for a referendum that could force President Nicolas Maduro from …
Saudi-led Yemen coalition demands sources for critical U.N. report
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A Saudi Arabia-led military coalition has asked the United Nations to reveal details on the sources of information that led the world body to briefly blacklist it for maiming and killing children in Yemen and invited U.N. exp…
Iran’s Khamenei threatens to ‘set fire’ to nuclear deal if West violates
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, threatened on Tuesday to “set fire” to the nuclear deal sealed with world powers if U.S. presidential candidates reneged on the agreement.
