Kerry in Kurdistan to urge leaders to be part of national government
ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was in Iraqi Kurdistan on Tuesday to urge its leaders not to withdraw from the political process in Baghdad after their forces took control of the northern oil city of Kirkuk.
Leader of Tijuana drug cartel captured in northern Mexico
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican soldiers have captured the leader of the Tijuana cartel in the northern border city, government officials said on Tuesday, in a fresh blow to the once powerful drug gang.
Machete-wielding gang kills five in Kenyan village: officials
MOMBASA Kenya (Reuters) – Attackers armed with machetes killed at least five people in a village on Kenya’s coast close to where gunmen shot down about 65 people last week, officials said on Tuesday.
Israel says Assad forces behind Golan attack that killed boy
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday that Syrian forces launched an attack that killed an Israeli boy on the occupied Golan Heights and Damascus would have to “pay the price” for it.
As costs rise, Israeli settlements face questions at home
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli lawmakers are pressing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to lift what they call unjustified secrecy over opaque – and rising – funding for settlements on West Bank land Palestinians want for a state.
Opponents of Thai junta launch democracy campaign
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Opponents of Thailand’s junta launched a campaign on Tuesday to restore democracy and “oppose the military dictatorship and its aristocratic network”, the first sign of organised resistance to the army since it seized power last mon…
Second nominee for South Korea prime minister withdraws
SEOUL (Reuters) – The second nominee for South Korea’s prime minister withdrew his name on Tuesday over controversial comments he made about the country’s troubled past with Japan in the latest political setback for President Park Geun-hye.
China’s legendary ‘Crazy Yang’ oil trader dies
BEIJING (Reuters) – Legendary Chinese oil trader “Crazy Yang” Qinglong, who started China’s oil business with Iran in the 1990s and was renowned as a hard-drinker who bear-hugged Iranian officials, has died, said company officials and former acquaintan…
Egypt jails Al Jazeera journalists, U.S. calls sentences ‘chilling’
CAIRO (Reuters) – Three Al Jazeera journalists were jailed for seven years each by an Egyptian judge on Monday, in what Washington called “chilling, draconian sentences” that must be reversed.
Peru’s President Humala reshuffles cabinet as popularity sinks
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s President Ollanta Humala replaced his foreign affairs, interior and transportation ministers on Monday in a surprise cabinet shake-up as his popularity sinks to new lows.
