Children held at Australian camp suffer assaults, sexual abuse-leaked documents
SYDNEY (Reuters) – More than 2,000 incidents, including sexual abuse, assault and attempted self-harm, were reported in about two years at an Australian detention center for asylum seekers in Nauru, more than half involving children, a newspaper report…
Exclusive: Turkish military officer seeking asylum in United States – U.S. officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Turkish military officer on a U.S.-based assignment for NATO is seeking asylum in the United States after being recalled by the Turkish government in the wake of last month’s failed military coup, U.S. officials told Reuters.
Ex-Guantanamo prisoner held by Venezuela’s intelligence agency: lawyer
CARACAS (Reuters) – A former Guantanamo prisoner who was relocated to Uruguay nearly two years ago is being held by Venezuela’s intelligence agency after traveling to Caracas in an apparent attempt to reunite with family, a lawyer familiar with his cas…
Brazil Senate meets to indict suspended President Rousseff
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s Senate met on Tuesday to vote on whether to indict President Dilma Rousseff on charges of breaking budget laws, in the long-awaited start of the trial phase of impeachment proceedings against her.
U.S. Vice President Biden to visit Serbia, Kosovo next week
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will visit Serbia and Kosovo next week, the White House said on Tuesday.
Russia’s Putin, Britain’s May agree to meet to try to thaw frosty ties
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and British Prime Minister Theresa May spoke by phone on Tuesday and agreed to meet “in the near future” to try to improve poor relations between Moscow and London, the Kremlin said in a statement.
Grief, anger after 74 Pakistanis killed in hospital bomb
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani mourners flocked to funerals on Tuesday for 74 victims, most of them lawyers, of the bombing of a hospital in the southwestern city of Quetta, and legal organizations staged a nationwide strike in protest.
U.N. censure of North Korea missile thwarted
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council has been unable to condemn the launch of a missile by North Korea that landed near Japan because China wanted the statement to oppose the planned deployment of a U.S. anti-missile defense s…
Italy PM Renzi says ‘mistake’ to personalize constitutional referendum
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said on Tuesday it had been a mistake to personalize a referendum, due to be held later this year, in which he originally promised to resign if he failed to convince voters to support the need for co…
Militants kill two soldiers in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Kurdish militants killed two soldiers and wounded two others in a firefight on Tuesday in Turkey’s strife-ridden southeast, security sources said.
