Security officials, protesters clash during Pakistan strike
KARACHI (Reuters) – Pakistani security personnel on Tuesday clashed with marchers protesting government plans to privatize the ailing national airline, a skirmish that a hospital official said killed at least two protesters and injured eight.
Venezuela ex-ministers seek probe into $300 billion in lost oil revenue
CARACAS (Reuters) – Two former cabinet ministers under late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez are seeking an investigation to trace the fate of some $300 billion allegedly embezzled during the past decade through a complex currency control system.
Two injured as explosion forces plane to turn back in Somalia
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Two passengers were injured in an explosion that blew a hole in the fuselage of a commercial plane taking off from the Mogadishu on Tuesday, an airline representative said.
ISIS pushed back in Iraq, Syria, but a threat in Libya: Kerry
ROME (Reuters) – An international coalition is pushing back Islamic State militants in their Syrian and Iraqi strongholds, but the group is threatening Libya and could seize the nation’s oil wealth, U.S Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday.
Colombia says time running out for peace talks with ELN rebels
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s government on Tuesday warned the country’s second-largest rebel group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), that time is running out to begin peace negotiations to end five decades of war.
Russia slaps travel ban on five U.S. officials
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday it had introduced a travel ban on 5 law-enforcement officials from the United States in retaliation for a similar action by Washington.
Afghanistan needs long-term U.S. commitment: General Campbell
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States must make a long-term commitment to Afghanistan to stop security there from worsening further and prevent attacks on the West by militants based there, the outgoing commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan said o…
Germany’s Gabriel calls for fewer migrants as registrations triple on year
BERLIN (Reuters) – The number of migrants coming to Germany needs to fall, German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel wrote in a letter on Tuesday, as data showed registrations almost tripled in January compared with the same month last year.
U.S.-led coalition aims to recapture ISIS ‘caliphate’ in Iraq, Syria
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State aims this year to recapture Iraq’s second city Mosul, working with Iraqi government forces, and drive the jihadis out of Raqqa, their stronghold in northeast Syria, Arab and Western officials say.
EU designs permanent outer circle to keep Britain in
LONDON (Reuters) – The European Union formally abandoned on Tuesday the founding principle that all of its members are heading toward ever closer integration, only at different speeds.
