Air France, Virgin among airlines avoiding Iraqi airspace
BERLIN (Reuters) – Major airlines are taking differing stances to flying over Iraq, reflecting the piecemeal approach airlines currently take to flying over conflict zones and ahead of an international meeting of industry representatives to discuss the…
Karzai’s powerful cousin killed, worsens strains over poll deadlock
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s powerful cousin, a close ally of presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani, was killed in a suicide bomb attack on Tuesday, officials said, deepening strains over an election marred by fraud and under a U.N.-…
China says investigating powerful former security chief for graft
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Communist Party said on Tuesday it had launched a corruption investigation into former domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang, one of the country’s most influential politicians of the last decade, in a case that has its origi…
Inquiry finds ‘indications’ of organ harvesting in Kosovo conflict
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – An EU-led inquiry found “compelling indications” that Kosovo Albanian guerrillas extracted body organs from Serb captives during the 1998-99 war and sold them, but the practice was not widespread and there was not enough evidence f…
Suspect in Jewish Museum attack extradited to Belgium
PARIS (Reuters) – The French suspect in a May 24 shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels that left four people dead was extradited to Belgium on Tuesday, a court spokeswoman said.
At least 30 people killed in Libya’s Benghazi in heavy fighting
BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) – At least 30 people were killed overnight and Tuesday morning in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi during heavy clashes involving war planes and rockets between government special forces and Islamist fighters, medical sources s…
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…
