Tunisia’s Essebsi wins first presidential round, heads for run-off
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian secularist leader Beji Caid Essebsi beat incumbent President Moncef Marzouki in the first round of landmark presidential elections, but the two men will have to meet again in a December run-off, early results showed on Tuesda…
At least 18 killed in Cairo building collapse
CAIRO (Reuters) – An eight-floor residential building collapsed overnight in Cairo, killing at least 18 people and injuring seven others, security sources said on Tuesday, adding that the casualty figure was expected to rise.
Greece acts to rescue ship carrying hundreds of migrants
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece has sent a frigate to rescue a container ship believed to carrying hundreds of undocumented migrants and in distress off its southern island of Crete, the Greek coastguard said on Tuesday.
China opens separatism trial for students of jailed Uighur scholar
BEIJING (Reuters) – China opened separatism trials for seven students of jailed Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti on Tuesday, a human rights lawyer said, the latest developments in a legal drama in the Xinjiang region that has drawn criticism from the West.
Stop Mediterranean becoming vast migrant cemetery, Pope tells Europe
STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) – Pope Francis told Europe’s leaders on Tuesday to do more to help thousands of migrants risking their lives trying to get into the continent, saying they had to stop the Mediterranean becoming “a vast cemetery”.
UK’s MI5 could not have stopped soldier’s brutal murder: report
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s security services could not have prevented two men hacking to death a British soldier in broad daylight on a London street last year even though one of the killers had been a high priority in previous inquiries, lawmakers s…
Libya’s rival ruler could ban U.N. envoy, complicating peace talks
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s rival government may forbid a UN official from entering the territory it controls, a move that could make it harder to negotiate an end to a violent struggle for power that threatens to tear the country apart.
For world’s police, force of the law meets the law of force
(Reuters) – U.S. police are under pressure not only for the killing of an unarmed teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, for which a grand jury decided on Monday not to indict the police officer, but also for the military-style response to the sometimes viole…
Two blasts hit Kabul, seven Afghan soldiers wounded
KABUL (Reuters) – Two explosions shook the Afghan capital on Tuesday, leaving seven army officers wounded after a bomb attack on their bus, while a grenade blast in the diplomatic quarter caused no casualties but led to the arrest of a suspect, officia…
Thailand displays cash, luxury cars seized in probe into senior police
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai police displayed stacks of cash, luxury cars and an extensive collection of antique Buddha statues on Tuesday seized in a probe that has led to the arrest of seven police on charges ranging from insulting the monarchy to money …
