British lawmaker Cox was killed because of her political views: husband
LONDON (Reuters) – British lawmaker Jo Cox, who was shot dead in the street last week, died because of her strong political views, her husband said on Tuesday.
Kerry, Russia’s Lavrov discuss outlook for Syrian peace talks resumption
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry have discussed the outlook for resuming stalled Syrian peace talks, the Russian foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
Iran says arrests ten ‘terrorists’ who planned to bomb 50 targets
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Iran has arrested 10 Sunni Muslim militants who were planning to bomb 50 targets across the country, Iranian intelligence minister Mahmoud Alavi said on Tuesday, according to the Fars News site.
Macedonian president escapes impeachment over wiretap scandal
SKOPJE (Reuters) – The Macedonian parliament on Tuesday rejected a motion to impeach President Gjorge Ivanov over his decision to pardon 56 officials involved in a wiretap scandal that triggered a year-long political crisis.
Spaniards’ apathy to repeat election casts uncertainty over outcome
MADRID (Reuters) – Sitting outside the scruffy political science faculty of Madrid’s Complutense University, Elena Jimenez is exactly the sort of dissatisfied Spaniard who was inspired to vote last December for new parties that promised a change.
Brazil’s Rousseff warned of illegal campaign donations, donor to say: paper
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Marcelo Odebrecht, the former chief executive of Latin America’s largest construction company, will admit in plea bargain testimony that he personally oversaw illegal campaign donations for suspended President Dilma Rousseff in 201…
U.S. aircraft carrier docks in Crete after Islamic State battles
(Reuters) – The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier arrived in Crete on Tuesday, giving its 5,500 crew members a Greek island break after seven months at sea and over 2,000 missions launched against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria.
Jordan’s king vows to hit back against attack near Syrian border
AMMAN (Reuters) – Jordan’s King Abdullah vowed to hit back “with an iron fist” against attackers who killed six army border guards with a car bomb near the frontier with Syria on Tuesday, a palace statement said.
U.S. to give Afghan forces $3 billion a year from 2018-2020: official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States plans to provide more than $3 billion a year in support for the Afghan national security forces from 2018 through 2020, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Olson said on Tuesday.
Egypt will decide on Tuesday if EgyptAir black boxes should be sent abroad for repairs: minister
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister Sherif Fathy said investigators will decide later on Tuesday whether the memory units of crashed EgyptAir flight MS804’s black box recorders will need to be sent abroad or could be repaired locally.
