After Bae release, Christian groups tread carefully in North Korea
SEATTLE/SEOUL (Reuters) – Christian groups in North Korea are vowing to carry on their missionary work despite mounting risks since Korean-American activist Kenneth Bae was imprisoned two years ago.
Suicide bomber kills eight in northern Iraqi city Baiji
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed eight people including six soldiers on Tuesday in the northern Iraqi city of Baiji where government forces are trying to reassert control to break an Islamic State siege of the country’s largest refinery near…
Polish police use water cannon to push back far-right rioters
WARSAW (Reuters) – Police in the Polish capital used water cannon and fired rubber bullets into the air on Tuesday to push back several hundred masked men who broke away from a far-right march and threw stones and flares at lines of riot police.
Israeli forces kill Palestinian as clashes flare in West Bank
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian during clashes on Tuesday in the occupied West Bank, a day after Palestinian assailants fatally stabbed an Israeli soldier and a woman in attacks that raised fears of a new uprising.
Judge toughens jail terms in Kabul Bank scandal, freezes Karzai brother’s assets
KABUL (Reuters) – An Afghan judge tripled the jail sentences of two former heads of Kabul Bank to 15 years on Tuesday at the end of a re-opened court case into the bank’s collapse in 2010, which followed allegations of fraud and triggered a financial c…
U.N. envoy meets head of Libya’s rival parliament
TUNIS (Reuters) – A U.N. envoy held talks on Tuesday for the first time with the head of a self-declared Libyan parliament, which rejects the internationally recognized authorities, as part of efforts to find a solution to the country’s deepening confl…
North Korea halts talks with EU over U.N. draft on international court referral
UNITED NATIONS/SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea has halted talks with the main sponsor of a U.N. resolution urging the country’s referral to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, following months of attempts to win over key support…
Suicide bomber kills eight in Iraqi city of Baiji
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed eight people, including six soldiers, on Tuesday in the northern Iraqi city of Baiji, which the army is trying to control in order to break an Islamic State siege of the country’s largest refinery nearby, off…
Stalled reforms, South China Sea to dominate Myanmar’s ASEAN party
NAYPYITAW Myanmar (Reuters) – World leaders will descend on the capital of Myanmar this week, an event unthinkable over almost half a century of military rule, amid concern reforms that opened the country to international engagement have gone into reve…
Ukraine says rebels get reinforcements, shelling batters truce
KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Kiev accused separatists of preparing for renewed conflict in east Ukraine on Tuesday by bringing in “Russian mercenaries” and rearming as heavy shelling increased strains on a crumbling ceasefire.
