Snowden says would have much to tell German inquiry: magazine
BERLIN (Reuters) – Former U.S intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has new information to share with a German parliamentary inquiry investigating U.S. surveillance and he believes all Germans’ rights were violated, he has told a German magazine.
French National Front is ‘fascist, extremist’: German minister
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble on Tuesday branded the French National Front party fascist and extremist after the anti-immigrant Eurosceptics shocked Europe by coming first in France’s European Parliament elections.
Indian train crash kills 26, rescue operation ends
LUCKNOW India (Reuters) – A train crash in northern India killed 26 people, police said on Tuesday after a rescue operation to pull survivors and corpses from the mangled coaches concluded.
Iran readies plant needed to fulfill nuclear pact with powers
VIENNA (Reuters) – After months of delays, Iran appears to be finalizing a plant to convert a large amount of low-enriched uranium gas into an oxide form that would be less suitable for processing into nuclear bomb material, a U.N. watchdog report show…
India’s Modi prods Pakistan on terror on first days as PM
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a blunt warning to traditional neighbouring foe Pakistan on his first day in the job on Tuesday that it must prevent militants on its territory from attacking India.
Gunmen kill Turkish man in attack in Mogadishu
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A Turkish man was shot dead on Tuesday in Mogadishu when gunmen attacked the car he was traveling in with a senior manager from Turkish Airlines, a spokeswoman for the national carrier said.
Suicide bomber kills 19 in Baghdad Shi’ite mosque
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a Shi’ite mosque in central Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 19 people, security and medical sources said.
Eritreans fleeing from forced labor draft: U.N. report
GENEVA (Reuters) – Eritrea is running a forced labor program that is spawning human rights violations and fuelling a refugee exodus, according to a report that will be debated next month at the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Asia readies food security defenses against El Nino threat
JAKARTA/MANILA (Reuters) – Asia’s governments are scrambling to head off the potential impact of a weather phenomenon that in the past has driven food prices to levels that sparked social unrest.
Hamas and Fatah say agree on Palestinian national unity government
GAZA (Reuters) – Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas agreed on the make-up of a national unity government on Tuesday in the most significant step yet toward healing their seven-year rift.
