Russian foreign minister praises new U.S.-Cuba relations
HAVANA (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov praised the thaw in U.S.-Cuban relations on Tuesday during a six-hour stop in Havana, his first visit here since the United States and Cuba agreed to restore diplomatic ties.
Hadi forces check Houthi push towards Yemen’s Aden
ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) – Forces loyal to Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi drove Houthi fighters from two towns they had seized hours earlier on Tuesday, residents said, apparently checking an advance by the Shi’ite fighters towards his refuge in …
Jordan signs $10 billion nuclear power plant deal with Russia
AMMAN (Reuters) – Jordan signed an agreement with Russia on Tuesday worth $10 billion that sets the legal basis for building the kingdom’s first nuclear power plant with a total capacity of 2,000 megawatt.
France tells U.N. ‘insufficient’ progress in Iran nuclear talks
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – France warned on Tuesday that “insufficient” progress has been made toward a nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers with specific disparities over research and development and the issue of sanctions.
U.S. removes dead Cubans, sunken ships from sanctions list
HAVANA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States removed 45 companies and individuals from a Cuba sanctions blacklist on Tuesday, most of them dead people, defunct companies or sunken ships.
Canada says it will bomb Islamic State ‘safe havens’ in Syria
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada will expand its military mission against Islamic State by launching air strikes against the militants’ safe havens in Syria as well as Iraq, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Tuesday.
Obama slows withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Tuesday granted Afghan requests to slow the drawdown of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and said he would maintain a force of 9,800 through the end of 2015 while sticking to a 2017 exit plan.
U.N. ramps up threat to sanction South Sudan’s senior leaders
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday threatened sanctions against “senior individuals” in South Sudan for actions or policies that jeopardize security and stability after the war-torn country’s leaders failed to agr…
Tunisia’s Bardo museum in symbolic reopening and march after attacks
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s Bardo museum held a ceremonial reopening on Tuesday a week after gunmen claiming alliance with Islamic State killed 20 foreign tourists in an attack aimed at wrecking the country’s vital tourism industry.
Boko Haram kidnapped hundreds in northern Nigeria town: residents
DAMASAK, Nigeria (Reuters) – Boko Haram militants have kidnapped more than 400 women and children from the northern Nigerian town of Damasak that was freed this month by troops from Niger and Chad, residents said on Tuesday.
