Brazil squanders oil bonanza even as Rousseff declares victory
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has put her government’s oil policies front and center in her re-election campaign.
African leaders seek fund to fight militant groups
NAIROBI (Reuters) – African leaders proposed on Tuesday creating a special fund to combat Islamist militant groups growing in strength from Kenya to Nigeria.
End of Gaza war doesn’t translate into peace
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A week after the guns fell silent in the Gaza war, Israel and the Palestinians seem to have little appetite or incentive for a return to U.S.-sponsored peace and statehood talks that collapsed five months ago.
Pakistan parliament backs embattled prime minister as crisis deepens
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s parliament threw its weight behind embattled Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday as a deepening crisis over violent protests demanding his resignation prompted fears of an army intervention.
Saudi Arabia says it arrests 88 for preparing ‘terrorist’ raids
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has detained 88 people, more than half of them Saudis, on suspicion of plotting “terrorist” attacks at home and abroad, the interior ministry said on Tuesday.
EU proposes tough sanctions on Moscow as Ukraine rebels advance
BRUSSELS/KIEV (Reuters) – European officials proposed sweeping new sanctions on Tuesday to starve Russia’s companies of capital and technology as punishment for Moscow’s intervention in Ukraine, where Kiev officials said Russia was bolstering an “invas…
Landmine kills four U.N. soldiers, wounds 15 in northern Mali
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Four United Nations soldiers were killed on Tuesday and a further 15 were wounded when the convoy they were traveling in struck a landmine in an area of northern Mali where attacks are on the rise, a spokesman for the country’s U.N. …
EU’s new leadership trio may surprise on upside
PARIS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – At first sight, the European Union’s new leadership team looks like a missed opportunity.
Scores killed as Boko Haram insurgents overrun Nigerian town: sources
MAIDUGURI Nigeria (Reuters) – Islamist Boko Haram insurgents overran most of a northeastern Nigerian town on Tuesday after hours of fighting that killed scores and displaced thousands of residents, security sources said.
Syrian forces escalate assault on rebel-held Damascus district
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian forces carried out their fiercest assault on the rebel stronghold of Jobar in Damascus since the start of the three-year war, conducting at least 27 air strikes on Tuesday and killing a child, according to activists and rights…
