UAE police seek suspect in killing of U.S. teacher
DUBAI (Reuters) – A female American teacher has been stabbed to death in the toilet of an Abu Dhabi shopping mall but police are uncertain if the suspected killer, who was dressed in a black robe, is a woman or a man, police said.
Support for Chilean president Bachelet sliding fast -polls
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Support for Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and her administration has fallen significantly in recent months, as voters worry about the economy and lose faith in her reform drive, two opinion polls showed on Wednesday.
Portugal top court rejects motion to free ex-PM in graft case
LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s supreme court rejected on Wednesday a request for former prime minister Jose Socrates to be freed from prison after his arrest for suspected tax fraud and corruption, offences he has denied committing.
U.S. presses for destruction of Syrian chemical weapons facilities
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The United States on Wednesday called for closer monitoring of the long-delayed destruction of a dozen chemical weapons production facilities in Syria, which is several months behind schedule.
Suspected Palestinian attacker stabs two in settlement supermarket, then shot by guard
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A Palestinian teenager stabbed two people in a supermarket near an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday and was shot by a security guard, police and an ambulance service said.
Special Report: How Exxon helped make Iraqi Kurdistan
LONDON/ARBIL (Reuters) – In January 2011, Exxon hired one of the best connected men in Iraq: Ali Khedery, an American of Iraqi descent who had served in Baghdad as a special assistant to five U.S. ambassadors and a senior adviser to three U.S. generals.
Adviser to France’s Hollande resigns after fraud accusations
PARIS (Reuters) – An adviser to French President Francois Hollande resigned on Wednesday after being summoned to answer charges of fraud by a Paris criminal court, the second Hollande ally to step down in the last month.
Psychiatric patients struggle to get through Ukraine conflict
SLOVYANOSERBSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Anna Tsvirinko takes her hand out of the jacket she is wearing over her nurse’s uniform to keep warm and points at a dirty mattress in the unheated ward of the Ukrainian psychiatric hospital where she works.
South African court halts sale of Biko autopsy report: family
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The family of renowned South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko said it won a court battle on Wednesday to stop an auction house selling a post-mortem report into his 1977 death.
Aid workers in Afghanistan fear for their lives as troops pull out: survey
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Half the aid workers in Afghanistan received death treats or intimidation during the past year as foreign troops phased out their operations and funding began to dwindle, a survey released ahead of the London confe…
