Exclusive: China investigates second top officer for graft – sources
BEIJING (Reuters) – China is investigating a second former top military officer on suspicion of corruption, two independent sources told Reuters, as President Xi Jinping widens his campaign against deep-rooted graft in the country.
Libya forces hit Tripoli airport, to target Misrata: security official
((This corrected version of the story makes clear forces have not attacked Misrata yet, but plan to do so).)
Top Indian, Pakistani diplomats meet to mend ties
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – India’s top diplomat pledged to improve relations with Pakistan on Tuesday after the first meeting with his counterpart since India called off talks aimed at easing the rivals’ many disputes last year.
U.N.-Cambodia tribunal charges two more ex-Khmer Rouge cadres
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – A U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Cambodia charged two former cadres of the 1970s Khmer Rouge regime with crimes against humanity on Tuesday over their alleged roles in the deaths of an estimated 1.8 million people.
Magnitude 6.4 quake strikes off Indonesia, no reports of damage
JAKARTA (Reuters) – An earthquake measuring 6.4 magnitude struck off the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but there were no reports of damage or casualties.
Magnitude 6.4 quake strikes off Indonesia, no reports of damage
JAKARTA (Reuters) – An earthquake measuring 6.4 magnitude struck off the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, but there were no reports of damage or casualties.
Kerry and Zarif hold second day of talks on Iran’s nuclear program
MONTREUX, Switzerland (Reuters) – The U.S. and Iranian foreign ministers on Tuesday began a second day of talks on curbing Iran’s nuclear program with the aim of securing a framework agreement by the end of March.
Fame for North Korean defectors brings money, suspicion
SEOUL (Reuters) – Kang Myung-do, then son-in-law of North Korea’s premier, made a spectacular claim about Pyongyang’s nuclear capability when he defected to the South over two decades ago, asserting the secretive country had built five atomic bombs.
Iraq battles to rebuild despite war and oil slump
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – On a main highway south of Baghdad, dozens of buildings rise up from the Iraqi plains, the first blocks of a multi-billion-dollar city emerging from a landscape more accustomed to conflict and crisis than glitzy new development.
Pakistan arrests parents for refusing children’s polio vaccinations
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistan authorities have arrested hundreds of parents who refuse to vaccinate their children against polio, officials said Tuesday, as community opposition and Taliban threats block efforts to eradicate the crippling dis…
