Colombia’s Marxist ELN rebels to blame for explosions: police
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s Marxist ELN rebels detonated four small explosive devices around the capital, Bogota, early Tuesday morning, causing no injuries but damaging a highway overpass and other structures, police told local media.
Ex-Catalan chief Pujol stripped of titles in Spain tax scandal
MADRID (Reuters) – One of the most prominent political figures of democratic Spain will be stripped of honorary privileges after he said he hid a personal fortune from the Spanish taxman for three decades.
Islamic State video wages psychological war on Iraqi soldiers
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Islamic State, the al Qaeda spin-off that seized wide swathes of Iraq almost unopposed last month, has released a video warning Iraqi soldiers who may still have some fight in them that they risk being rounded up en masse and execut…
U.S. judge signs order to seize Kurdish oil from tanker off Texas
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Acting on a request from the central government in Iraq, a U.S. judge has signed an order telling the U.S. Marshals Service to seize a cargo of oil from Iraqi Kurdistan aboard a tanker off the Texas coast, court filings showed on Tu…
Magnitude 6.3 quake hits Mexico, no major damages or injuries
(Reuters) – A magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit southwest of Juan Rodriguez Clara, in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz on Tuesday at a depth of 95 km (60 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or major …
Special Report: Where Ukraine’s separatists get their weapons
DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – On the last day of May, a surface-to-air rocket was signed out of a military base near Moscow where it had been stored for more than 20 years.
Britain cuts EU migrants’ access to welfare payments
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday set out new welfare rules to cut access to social security payments for migrants from the European Union, the latest in a string of British measures aimed at addressing voter concern ov…
Philippines to propose no action to raise tension in sea disputes
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines will propose a freeze on all activity that raises tension in disputed waters in the South China Sea as part of a three-part plan at a regional security meeting next month, Manila’s foreign minister said on Tuesday.
China’s war games don’t faze Japan but disrupt civilian air traffic
BEIJING (Reuters) – China is holding some of its most extensive military exercises this week off its eastern seaboard, and although rival Japan is unperturbed, they are causing massive disruptions in civilian air traffic in Shanghai and other cities.
South Korea ferry boss’s driver who may hold key to mystery turns self in
INCHEON South Korea (Reuters) – The driver of a South Korean businessman wanted over the sinking of a ferry that killed 304 people turned himself in on Tuesday, potentially unlocking the mystery of the businessman’s final days after the country’s worst…
