French Socialists pick veteran to run party after poll rout
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s Socialist Party named its new chief on Tuesday, a one-time political opponent of President Francois Hollande who will have to overhaul a ruling party reeling from local election losses in time for European parliament election…
Rebel videos show first U.S.-made rockets in Syria
LONDON (Reuters) – Online videos show Syrian rebels using what appear to be U.S. anti-tank rockets, weapons experts say, the first significant American-built armaments in the country’s civil war.
Saudi spy chief, architect of Syria policy, replaced
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabian intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the architect of Riyadh’s attempts to bring down Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has been removed from his post, state media reported on Tuesday.
U.S. adopts harsher tone in U.N. envoy dispute with Iran
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States adopted a harsher tone toward Iran’s proposed U.N. ambassador on Tuesday, calling Tehran’s choice of Hamid Abutalebi “unacceptable” and tying him to the 1979-1981 U.S. hostage crisis in Tehran.
Exclusive: U.N. should halt arms shipments via Ivory Coast after China breach – panel
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – United Nations experts have called for the world body to stop allowing arms for its Mali peacekeepers to be shipped through Ivory Coast after they said a load of military hardware sent by China violated the country’s arms embargo.
Russia says four militants killed in Dagestan siege
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian security forces killed four suspected militants after laying siege to a home in the North Caucasus province of Dagestan on Tuesday, authorities said.
European parliament votes for compulsory ‘made-in’ labels
(Reuters) – The European Parliament voted on Tuesday to oblige manufacturers to label all non-food goods with their country of origin, a step designed to help consumers know what they are buying, but one that has divided industry.
Berlusconi ordered to do community service for tax conviction
MILAN (Reuters) – A court on Tuesday ordered former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to serve a tax fraud sentence by doing community service with the elderly, in a ruling that restricts his movements but not his political activity.
France’s Hollande would lose election vs. Sarkozy, Le Pen: poll
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande would be beaten at the polls by both his center-right predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy and far-right rival Marine Le Pen if he ran for re-election this week, an opinion survey showed on Tuesday.
Nigeria rebels abduct schoolgirls, government says will protect ‘African Davos’
ABUJA/MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Suspected Islamist insurgents abducted more than 100 female students in a night raid on a government secondary school in Nigeria’s northeast Borno state, a teacher said on Tuesday.
