German conservative asks if Merkel coalition can survive spy row
BERLIN (Reuters) – A senior member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives talked openly for the first time on Tuesday of the potential breakup of their coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD) due to a row over the activities of Germany’s BND spy…
U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon to visit North Korea industrial zone
SEOUL (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday he will visit the Kaesong industrial complex just north of the inter-Korean border, which will make him the first U.N. chief to enter the isolated country in more than two decades.
Judge sentences 11 Afghan police over lynching of woman in Kabul
KABUL (Reuters) – An Afghan judge sentenced 11 police on Tuesday to one year in jail for failing to prevent the mob killing of a woman in Kabul who was accused of burning a Koran.
Morocco’s Islamic women preachers lead social revolution
CASABLANCA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Girls are “like a timebomb ready to explode and ruin the family’s reputation”, the Moroccan jewelry trader tells his customer as she admires a display of necklaces.
UK’s Prince Charles to meet Sinn Fein’s Gerry Adams for first time
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Charles is to meet Gerry Adams in Ireland on Tuesday, the first time the leader of the former political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) has met a senior member of the royal family, his Sinn Fein party said.
Egypt security forces step up sexual violence since Mursi’s ouster-human rights group
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian security forces have stepped up sexual violence since the military overthrew the country’s first freely elected president in 2013, a human rights group alleged on Tuesday.
Pakistan military says its spies will cooperate with Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – After years of antagonism and accusations, spy agencies in Pakistan and Afghanistan will now share information, the Pakistani military said, in another sign frosty relations between the neighbors may be gradually thawing.
Drone strike kills five suspected militants in northwest Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – A U.S. drone strike in Pakistan’s northwestern Shawal Valley has killed at least five militants, three Pakistani intelligence sources said on Tuesday.
Women activists leave for North Korea and DMZ peace march
BEIJING (Reuters) – With tears, songs and laughter, 30 women activists set off from Beijing on Tuesday on a controversial trip to North Korea, where they will cross the heavily fortified demilitarized zone (DMZ) to the South in a call for peace on the …
Indonesian ambassador to Pakistan dies 11 days after helicopter crash
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s ambassador to Pakistan died on Tuesday, 11 days after he was injured in a helicopter crash in northern Pakistan that killed seven others, Indonesia’s foreign minister said.
