Libya oilfield attack blow to U.N. peace talks
CAIRO (Reuters) – An attack by Islamist militants on a Libyan oilfield where they beheaded security guards and kidnapped foreign workers underlines the difficulties facing U.N.-sponsored peace talks due to resume this week.
Italy PM Renzi makes progress with constitutional reform
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Tuesday moved one step closer to passing a constitutional reform aimed at streamlining the lawmaking process, as divisions within opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi’s party widened.
Hardliner wins key post to influence choice of Iran’s next leader
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A prominent hardliner was elected on Tuesday to head the influential body that will pick Iran’s next Supreme Leader.
Turkish PM denies rift with Erdogan over spy chief’s return
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s prime minister denied a rift with President Tayyip Erdogan over the fate of the country’s intelligence chief on Tuesday after the top spy was hastily restored to the job he had quit to stand in June elections.
Suicide car bomber kills seven, wounds 28 in southern Afghanistan
LASKHAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Seven people were killed and 28 others including five police were wounded on Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in his car outside the capital of Helmand in southern Afghanistan, a provincial official sai…
Boko Haram raid town in Nigeria’s Borno state, at least 12 dead
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Suspected Boko Haram militants attacked the town of Ngamdu in Nigeria’s northeast Borno state early on Tuesday, killing about a dozen people, witnesses and a security source said.
Inmates injured in clashes at Bahrain prison: rights group
MANAMA (Reuters) – Bahraini security forces tear-gassed and beat inmates at a prison on Tuesday while trying to quell clashes that erupted during family visits, a local human rights group said, causing some injuries among the detainees.
Venezuela’s Maduro seeks decree powers to face U.S. ‘imperialism’
CARACAS (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro was seeking special decree powers from Venezuela’s parliament on Tuesday in response to new U.S. sanctions, drawing opposition protests of a power-grab.
U.S. declares Venezuela a national security threat, sanctions top officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States declared Venezuela a national security threat on Monday and ordered sanctions against seven officials from the oil-rich country in the worst bilateral diplomatic dispute since socialist President Nicolas Maduro …
Child and maternal deaths tumble, East Africa leads the way: U.N.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Maternal and child death rates fell in every one of the poorest 49 countries in the world between 2010 and 2013, largely as a result of a U.N. initiative launched in 2010, the world body said on Tuesday.
