France steps up patrols after spate of lone-wolf attacks
PARIS (Reuters) – French security forces stepped up security at public places for the Christmas holiday season on Tuesday after three separate acts of violence in three days left about 30 wounded and reignited fears of attacks by Islamist radicals.
Ukrainian parliament angers Moscow by scrapping ‘non-aligned’ status
KIEV (Reuters) – The Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday renounced Ukraine’s “non-aligned” status with the aim of eventually joining NATO, angering Moscow which views the Western alliance’s eastward expansion as a threat to its own security
Over 1,000 Islamist militants killed in U.S. strikes in Syria: monitor
AMMAN (Reuters) – Three months of U.S.-led strikes in Syria have so far killed at least 1,171 people, mostly Islamic State militants, a British-based Syrian monitoring group said on Tuesday.
Facing stiff challenge, Sri Lanka’s Rajapaksa seeks to woo voters
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Facing possible defeat in his bid for re-election, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa sought to reassure voters on Tuesday that he would resist pressure for an international war crimes probe, bring a new political culture and en…
Modi’s party breaks new ground in two Indian states
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party made big electoral gains in the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir and captured power in an eastern state on Tuesday, underscoring the Hindu nationalist’s dominance of the politi…
Hundreds of civilians killed in months of fighting in Libya: U.N.
GENEVA (Reuters) – Hundreds of civilians in Libya have been killed in fighting since late August, the United Nations said on Tuesday, warning commanders that they could face prosecution for possible war crimes.
Algerian soldiers kill militant leader behind Frenchman’s murder
ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algerian soldiers killed the leader of the militant group responsible for kidnapping and beheading French tourist Herve Gourdel in September, a security source and a television station close to the government said on Tuesday.
Satellite images show 290 heritage sites in Syria damaged by war: U.N.
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Satellite imagery indicate that 290 cultural heritage sites in Syria, whose history stretches back to the dawn of civilization, have been damaged by its ongoing civil war, the United Nations’ training and research arm (UNITAR) said o…
North Korea’s Internet links restored amid U.S. hacking dispute
SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea, at the center of a confrontation with the United States over the hacking of Sony Pictures, experienced a complete Internet outage for hours before links were restored on Tuesday, but U.S. officials said Washing…
Bangladeshi ex-minister sentenced to death for war crimes
DHAKA (Reuters) – A former junior minister in a Bangladeshi military government was sentenced to death on Tuesday after a war crimes tribunal found him guilty of atrocities during the country’s war of independence from Pakistan more than four decades a…
