Suriname leader’s son gets 16 years U.S. prison for Hezbollah aid
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The son of Suriname’s president was sentenced on Tuesday to 16-1/4 years in prison, after pleading guilty last August to U.S. charges that he tried to offer a home base to the Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah.
Frenchman gets three years for helping girl of 14 to go to Syria
PARIS (Reuters) – A French court sentenced a man on Tuesday to three years in jail for helping a 14-year-old girl who wanted to travel to Syria to marry an Islamic State fighter there.
Suspected suicide bomber kills at least 12 in Nigeria’s Maiduguri
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – A suspected female suicide bomber killed at least 12 people on Tuesday in Maiduguri, capital of Nigeria’s Borno state, military and hospital sources said, three days after a multiple bomb attack in the city killed more th…
Brazil passes femicide law to tackle rise in gender killings
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Brazil, where a woman is killed every two hours, is imposing tougher punishments on those who murder women and girls, as part of a government bid to stem a rise in gender killings.
Russia says halts activity in European security treaty group
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Tuesday it was halting its participation in a consulting group on the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, ending one of its last modes of participation on the 1990 security treaty.
Islamic State says it has killed two men for homosexuality
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Islamic State militants said on Tuesday they had killed two men in northern Iraq for homosexuality and another for blasphemy.
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.
