Myanmar police beat students, journalists, monks; about 100 detained
LETPADAN, Myanmar (Reuters) – – Myanmar police beat students, monks and journalists with batons on Tuesday as they dispersed a protest over a proposed new education law after a standoff that lasted more than a week, drawing condemnation from the United…
King Salman pledges to maintain stability, create jobs
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s King Salman said he would fight corruption, diversify the economy and confront anybody who challenged the stability of the world’s top oil exporter in his first big speech since taking power on Jan. 23.
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.
