One Ukrainian servicemen killed in past 24 hours in east
KIEV (Reuters) – One Ukrainian serviceman was killed and one wounded in attacks by pro-Russian separatists in the east of Ukraine in the past 24 hours, Kiev’s military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said on Tuesday.
Hun Sen hostility puts decade-old U.N. Khmer Rouge tribunal in doubt
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Youk Chhang has spent 20 years documenting the horrors of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge “Killing Fields” regime and his team has provided half a million documents to a U.N.-backed tribunal building cases against those responsible.
Japanese PM Abe makes ritual offering at Yasukuni shrine, irks neighbors
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering on Tuesday to a Tokyo shrine for war dead, irking Asian neighbors just before he hopes to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of a leaders’ summit in Jakarta.
Japan PM Abe aims to improve ties with China
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said ahead of his trip to a leaders’ summit in Jakarta that he aims to improve ties with China, and reiterated that he is ready to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Police detain suspect after fire at British Embassy in The Hague
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch police detained a man in connection with a fire at the British embassy in The Hague on Tuesday, they said in a tweet.
Yemen’s Houthi fighters have tough record in ground war
SANAA (Reuters) – It’s a nightly exercise in futility: Yemen’s Houthis fire rifles at Saudi F-15 jets thundering overhead. But the guerrillas’ Kalashnikovs would be more formidable if and when Saudi Arabia decided to fight a ground war.
Air strike on missile base in Yemen capital kills 25, wounds hundreds
SANAA (Reuters) – An air strike on a Scud missile base in the Houthi-controlled Yemeni capital Sanaa triggered a big explosion that killed 25 people and wounded almost 400 on Monday, state news agency Saba said.
Sudan’s president cancels trip to Indonesia
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir at the last minute canceled a trip to Indonesia for a summit this week, a government official said, in what would have been his first trip outside of Africa or the Middle East in nearly four y…
U.N. Security Council demands aid access for Syria’s Yarmouk camp
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council on Monday demanded all parties to the Syrian civil war allow humanitarian aid to reach without obstruction the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus, a site that Islamist mili…
Pope condemns killings of Ethiopian Christians in Libya
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis condemned the “continuing martyrdom” of Christians on Monday after 30 Ethiopians were shown being shot and beheaded in Libya on a video purportedly made by Islamic State militants.
