Egypt rejects blame for civilians killed in Libya airstrikes
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt on Tuesday rejected accusations of blame in the death of seven civilians killed in Libya last week when Cairo’s military bombed suspected Islamist militant targets after the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians.
Jailed Malaysian opposition leader’s family seeks royal pardon
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – The family of jailed Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said on Tuesday they had filed for a royal pardon two weeks after the 67-year-old former deputy prime minister was sent back to jail for five years.
First Ebola survivors talk of hope and despair in Guinea
GUECKEDOU, Guinea (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Lying in an Ebola treatment center in southeast Guinea, hidden behind thick plastic sheets and surrounded by nurses in yellow protective suits, Rose Komano feared she would not survive the virus that had…
Saudi court jails al Qaeda recruiters, bin Laden associate: newspaper
DUBAI (Reuters) – A Saudi court has jailed at least 13 men on counts including the recruitment of al Qaeda militants for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and sheltering Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, Saudi newspapers said on Tuesday.
Boko Haram mine kills two soldiers in southeast Niger: ministry
NIAMEY (Reuters) – A mine planted by Islamist militant group Boko Haram killed at least two soldiers on Tuesday in the town of Bosso in Niger’s southeastern region of Diffa, Niger’s defence ministry said.
Gunmen in Afghanistan halt buses, seize 30 passengers
KANDAHAR (Reuters) – Unidentified gunmen in southern Afghanistan stopped two buses traveling to the capital, Kabul, and seized around 30 people belonging to the ethnic Hazara minority, a bus company official said on Tuesday.
French lawmakers in first Damascus visit for three years
PARIS (Reuters) – A cross-party group of French lawmakers held talks with Syrian officials in Damascus on Tuesday, the first such contacts in the Syrian capital since the closure of France’s embassy there in 2012.
One in three Germans say capitalism to blame for poverty, hunger
BERLIN (Reuters) – Nearly a third of Germans believe that capitalism is the cause of poverty and hunger and a majority think true democracy is not possible under that economic system, according to a survey published on Tuesday by the Emnid polling inst…
Turkish PM says exercised ‘international rights’ in Syrian tomb operation
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Turkey exercised its international rights when it sent troops into neighboring Syria in a mission to evacuate soldiers guarding the tomb of Suleyman Shah, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Tuesday.
Turkey says official Libyan government targeting its companies there
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey accused Libya on Tuesday of targeting its companies there after the internationally recognized government said it would cancel contracts of Turkish businesses operating in the troubled north African state.
