U.S. nuclear negotiator declines setting deadline on Iran deal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The lead U.S. nuclear negotiator declined to give a final deadline on Tuesday for negotiating a final nuclear agreement with Iran, but said participants mean to finish the international talks at the end of the current four-month …
Iraq’s Kurds have right to sell oil while squeezed by Baghdad: MP
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s Kurdish region has the right to keep selling oil as long as the Baghdad government keeps cutting its budget, the head of the Kurdish parliament’s energy committee said on Tuesday, as an oil cargo off Texas was set to be seize…
Sierra Leone’s top Ebola doctor dies from virus
FREETOWN (Reuters) – Sierra Leone’s top doctor fighting an outbreak of Ebola has died from the virus, the country’s chief medical officer, Brima Kargbo, said on Tuesday.
Putin may have passed point of no-return over Ukraine
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin risks becoming an international pariah over the Ukraine crisis but the Russian president is battening down the hatches for the gathering economic and political storm.
Chinese police shoot dead dozens after attack in Xinjiang
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese police shot dead dozens of knife-wielding attackers on Monday morning after they staged assaults on two towns in the western region of Xinjiang, the official Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.
Libyan militants overrun Benghazi special forces base as chaos deepens
BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) – Militant fighters overran a Libyan special forces base in the eastern city of Benghazi on Tuesday after a battle involving rockets and warplanes that killed at least 30 people.
Air France, Virgin among airlines avoiding Iraqi airspace
BERLIN (Reuters) – Major airlines are taking differing stances to flying over Iraq, reflecting the piecemeal approach airlines currently take to flying over conflict zones and ahead of an international meeting of industry representatives to discuss the…
Karzai’s powerful cousin killed, worsens strains over poll deadlock
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s powerful cousin, a close ally of presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani, was killed in a suicide bomb attack on Tuesday, officials said, deepening strains over an election marred by fraud and under a U.N.-…
China says investigating powerful former security chief for graft
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Communist Party said on Tuesday it had launched a corruption investigation into former domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang, one of the country’s most influential politicians of the last decade, in a case that has its origi…
Inquiry finds ‘indications’ of organ harvesting in Kosovo conflict
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – An EU-led inquiry found “compelling indications” that Kosovo Albanian guerrillas extracted body organs from Serb captives during the 1998-99 war and sold them, but the practice was not widespread and there was not enough evidence f…
