U.N. agency urges truce in Syria fighting during harvesting
ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A U.N. agency appealed on Tuesday for a pause in the fighting raging across Syria so that farmers can harvest their crops in a country wracked by hunger and displacement.
Japan coalition wants to end most Fukushima evacuations by 2017: draft
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s ruling coalition will recommend lifting evacuation orders for most people forced from their homes by the Fukushima nuclear disaster within two years in a bid to speed up reconstruction, a draft proposal shows.
Nepal moves to protect children from traffickers after quake
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal banned children from traveling without parents or approved guardians on Tuesday in an unprecedented move to deter human traffickers who authorities fear are targeting vulnerable families after last month’s devastating earthq…
Russia launches large-scale air defense drills
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has begun air defense exercises in the Ural mountains and western Siberia involving 12,000 soldiers and 250 aircraft, the defense ministry said on Tuesday.
Security at Vienna Airport suspected of human trafficking, Britain’s G4S sacks employee
VIENNA (Reuters) – Private security staff at Vienna Airport are suspected of smuggling refugees, mainly Sri Lankans, through security checks onto flights to the United States and Britain, Austrian prosecutors said on Tuesday.
Netanyahu offers to resume peace talks with settlement focus, official says
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has proposed resuming peace negotiations with the Palestinians but with the initial focus on identifying those Jewish settlements that Israel would keep and be allowed to expand, an Israeli offici…
Kenya says five policemen wounded by Al Shabaab, no deaths
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Five Kenyan police officers were wounded by Somali militants who attacked two patrols in rural areas in the east of the country, Kenya’s police chief said on Tuesday, contradicting earlier reports that about 20 people were killed in…
Fire at China nursing home kills 38: state media
BEIJING (Reuters) – A fire at an aged care home in China’s central Henan province killed 38 people, state media said, the latest disaster in a country with a poor record on work safety.
Taliban suicide bombers attack Afghan court killing two
KABUL (Reuters) – Taliban suicide bombers attacked a court in Wardak province on Tuesday, killing two police officers before being shot dead as they entered the compound, the police chief said.
Malaysia refuses entry to Hong Kong pro-democracy student activist
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian immigration authorities on Tuesday denied entry to Hong Kong student activist Joshua Wong, who had been invited to the Southeast Asian nation to participate in academic talks on democracy in China and last year’s prot…
