Countries backing Syria talks to meet in Vienna on May 17: Kerry
LONDON (Reuters) – The 17-nation group backing Syria peace talks will meet next week, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday, a day after he and his Russian counterpart agreed to work to revive a “cessation of hostilities” agreement reached in F…
Obama to visit Hiroshima, will not apologize for World War Two bombing
WASHINGTON/TOKYO (Reuters) – Barack Obama will become the first U.S. president to visit Hiroshima in Japan later this month, but he will not apologize for the United States’ dropping of an atomic bomb on the city at the end of World War Two, the White …
China scrambles fighters as U.S. sails warship near Chinese-claimed reef
BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) – China scrambled fighter jets on Tuesday as a U.S. navy ship sailed close to a disputed reef in the South China Sea, a patrol China denounced as an illegal threat to peace which only went to show its defense installations i…
At least 10 killed in Afghan suicide bombing
KABUL (Reuters) – At least 10 people were killed and 23 wounded on Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew up his car near the house of a pro-government militia commander in the province of Nangarhar, a provincial official said.
New Panama leaks show offshore firm linked to associate of Ukraine’s Poroshenko
KIEV (Reuters) – A deputy director of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s confectionery empire is a beneficiary of a company registered in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), according to new information from the leaked “Panama Papers”.
Gunmen kill five security personnel in Nigerian Delta, oil companies evacuate staff
YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Gunmen killed two policemen in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta as they slept in a security post on Monday evening and three soldiers were killed in a second attack, police and the army said.
New Lebanese movement says wins 40 percent of Beirut municipal poll
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A new Lebanese protest movement said on Tuesday it had won 40 percent of the vote in weekend municipal elections and hailed the result as a blow against the political establishment even though it failed to win any council seats.
Bomb attack on police vehicle in Turkey’s Diyarbakir kills three: sources
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – A car bomb killed three people and wounded 45 when it struck a police vehicle on Tuesday in Diyarbakir, the main city in southeastern Turkey where security forces are trying to crush a Kurdish militant insurgency, the gov…
Cameron says leaders of ‘fantastically corrupt’ countries to attend British anti-graft summit
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron was caught on camera telling Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday that leaders of some “fantastically corrupt” countries, including Nigeria and Afghanistan, were due to attend his anti-corruption summit.
Man kills one at Munich station
MUNICH (Reuters) – A German man suffering from psychiatric problems stabbed four people at a train station near Munich early on Tuesday, killing one man and wounding three more in an attack investigators said did not appear to be politically motivated….
