Italy arrests 12 over $17 million Verona art theft in November
ROME (Reuters) – Twelve people suspected of stealing paintings worth some 15 million euros ($16.6 million) have been arrested, Italian police said on Tuesday.
Myanmar parliament elects Suu Kyi confidant as president
NAYPYITAW (Reuters) – Myanmar’s parliament elected a close friend and confidant of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as president on Tuesday, making Htin Kyaw the first head of state since the 1960s who does not hail from a military background.
Saudi-led air strikes kill 41 civilians in Yemen: health official
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi-led air strikes killed 41 civilians and wounded 75 others on Tuesday in Yemen’s northwestern province of Haja, a senior provincial health official said, a region largely controlled by the Iran-allied Houthi militia.
It felt like a death machine, says migrant forced back to Greece
IDOMENI, Greece (Reuters) – It took Hassan Omar four long hours to cross into Macedonia, his wheelchair pushed by strangers across the muddy paths of Greece’s border – but a day later he found himself back at the squalid migrant camp he had left.
In United States, refugees cook to win over hearts, minds and stomachs
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Beaming with pride, a Nepalese refugee in the kitchen of a New York caterer holds up cauliflower florets she has steamed, battered and fried, part of a cooking repertoire she says earns her a living and keeps her…
Brazil minister denies he tried to interfere in Petrobras probe
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian Education Minister Aloizio Mercadante on Tuesday denied he offered to pay for the silence of a former ruling party senator to prevent him from implicating the government in a sweeping investigation at state-run oil compan…
Al Qaeda says Ivory Coast attack was revenge against France
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Al Qaeda’s North African branch said its attack on a beach resort in Ivory Coast on Sunday that killed 18 people was revenge for a French offensive against Islamist militants in the Sahel region and called for its forces to withdraw…
Seat at geopolitical top table allowed Putin to scale back in Syria
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin cited Russian military success in Syria as his reason for scaling back his forces there. But his belief that the intervention delivered him a seat at the top table of world affairs is more likely to have tipped his han…
In Senegal, a beach town slowly wakes up to Islamist threat
SALY, Senegal (Reuters) – Two days after al Qaeda gunman shot dead 18 people on an Ivory Coast beach, tourists strolled nonchalantly down a similar stretch of sand in the Senegalese resort of Saly on Tuesday, browsing trinkets on sale and paddling in t…
Top French Catholic cleric denies covering up acts of paedophilia
PARIS (Reuters) – One of France’s most senior Catholic clerics on Tuesday denied having covered up acts of paedophilia, his second denial in two weeks, after Prime Minister Manuel Valls demanded that he take responsibility for the situation.
