On Russia’s border with Ukraine, fighters and military gear move freely
VERKHNYAYA OREKHOVKA Russia (Reuters) – In Russia’s southwestern Rostov region bordering Ukraine, a military-style training camp, a broken down border fence and tracks consistent with armoured personnel carriers or tanks add to a body of evidence of Ru…
Mozambique passes amnesty law for opposition leader ahead of vote
MAPUTO (Reuters) – Mozambique’s parliament has approved an amnesty law that will allow opposition Renamo party leader Afonso Dhlakama to leave his hideaway in the bush, sign a peace accord with President Armando Guebuza and run in an Oct. 15 election, …
Anger flares as mainland Chinese muscle in on Taiwan property
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Mainland Chinese are skirting rules aimed at limiting their purchases of property in Taiwan, stirring anger among local home buyers and fuelling worries over Beijing’s creeping influence over an island that it views as a renegade pro…
Two dead, eight wounded in Ecuador earthquake
QUITO (Reuters) – Two people were killed in Ecuador on Tuesday after a 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck near the capital of Quito, with eight others wounded and rescue workers still seeking to free others trapped after the tremor.
Talks on ending Gaza war ‘difficult’, but truce holds
GAZA/CAIRO (Reuters) – Talks to end a month-long war between Israel and Gaza militants are “difficult”, Palestinian delegates said on Tuesday, while Israeli officials said no progress had been made so far and fighting could soon resume.
U.S. ready to help new Iraq leader, Iran welcomes choice
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s new prime minister-designate won swift endorsements from uneasy mutual allies the United States and Iran on Tuesday as he called on political leaders to end crippling feuds that have let jihadists seize a third of the country…
Human Rights Watch urges U.N. inquiry into ‘systematic’ Egypt killings
CAIRO (Reuters) – The killing of hundreds of Egyptian demonstrators at two protest camps last year was systematic, ordered by top officials and probably amounts to crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday, calling for a U.N. inquiry….
Canada’s ‘Prince of Pot’ returns home after 5 years in U.S. jail
TORONTO/VANCOUVER August 12 (Reuters) – A Canadian man jailed for five years in a U.S. federal prison for shipping marijuana seeds across the border returned to his homeland on Tuesday, as laws regulating the drug in both countries have slowly been rel…
Family pleads for release of Ohio man held in North Korea
(Reuters) – The family of an Ohio man being held in North Korea pleaded on Tuesday for his release and said they are urgently seeking help from U.S. government leaders.
In North Korea, a church renovated, missionaries jailed
SEOUL (Reuters) – Tucked between trees and paddy fields in a quiet suburb in the west of Pyongyang, Chilgol Church is one of four state-operated churches in the capital of a country that espouses freedom of religion but effectively bans it.
