Syria’s Western-backed opposition elects new president
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s Western-backed opposition, the National Coalition, elected Hadi al-Bahra, chief negotiator at the Geneva peace talks, as its new president on Wednesday after a three-day meeting in Istanbul.
Gaza rockets land deep in Israel as it bombards Palestinian enclave
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli air strikes shook Gaza every few minutes on Wednesday, and militants kept up rocket fire at Israel’s heartland in intensifying warfare that Palestinian officials said has killed at least 53 people in the Hamas-dominat…
Exclusive: Iraq tells U.N. that ‘terrorist groups’ seized nuclear materials
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Insurgents in Iraq have seized nuclear materials used for scientific research at a university in the country’s north, Iraq told the United Nations in a letter appealing for help to “stave off the threat of their use by terror…
Anger mounts as Germany unearths second U.S. spy suspect
BERLIN/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – German politicians reacted angrily on Wednesday to news of a suspected U.S. spy in the defense ministry, which came days after the arrest of a German foreign intelligence agency worker as a suspected CIA informant.
Syria’s Western-backed opposition elects new president
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s Western-backed opposition, the National Coalition, elected Hadi al-Bahra, chief negotiator at the Geneva peace talks, as its new president on Wednesday after a three-day meeting in Istanbul.
Fukushima farmer takes on nuclear plant operator over wife’s suicide
YAMAKIYA Japan (Reuters) – A Japanese court is due to rule next month on a claim that Tokyo Electric Power is responsible for a woman’s suicide, in a landmark case that could force the utility to publicly admit culpability for deaths related to the Fuk…
Kurds threaten legal action against Iraq oil buyers
ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi Kurdistan threatened on Wednesday to take legal action against buyers of the country’s oil unless the autonomous region is paid its share of revenue from any sales.
Fifty-three blindfolded bodies found in Iraq as political leaders bicker
BAGHDAD Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi security forces found 53 corpses, blindfolded and handcuffed, south of Baghdad on Wednesday as Shi’ite and Kurdish leaders traded accusations over an Islamist insurgency raging in the country’s Sunni provinces.
Ukraine threatens to retake territory from defiant rebels
KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian government forces on Wednesday warned separatists in the eastern town of Donetsk that a plan was now in place to take back the territory they occupy, but defiant rebels reported a steady flow of new recruits w…
North Korean nuclear and missile expert dies; more missiles fired
SEOUL (Reuters) – A former North Korean missile expert who was placed under sanctions by the United Nations for his role in the country’s nuclear and missile weapons programs has died, state media said on Wednesday.
