Senior North Korean official reappears, belies reports of another purge
SEOUL (Reuters) – A senior North Korean official, believed to be the No. 2 in the country after leader Kim Jong Un, has reappeared in official television footage, belying reports he had fallen victim to a fresh purge in the isolated nation.
Abu Ghaith urged Qaeda recruits to ‘pledge’ to bin Laden: witness
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law, Suleiman Abu Ghaith, urged al Qaeda recruits en route to a training camp in Afghanistan to pledge their lives to bin Laden a few months before September 11, 2001, a government witness told jurors on Th…
Crimea votes to join Russia, Obama orders sanctions
SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Crimea’s parliament voted to join Russia on Thursday and its Moscow-backed government set a referendum in 10 days’ time in a dramatic escalation of the crisis over the Ukrainian region that drew a sharp riposte …
Abu Ghaith urged Qaeda recruits to ‘pledge’ to bin Laden: witness
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law, Suleiman Abu Ghaith, urged al Qaeda recruits en route to a training camp in Afghanistan to pledge their lives to bin Laden a few months before September 11, 2001, a government witness told jurors on Th…
Two dead in Venezuela violence as protests drag on
CARACAS (Reuters) – A Venezuelan soldier and a motorcyclist died in a confused melee sparked by the opposition’s barricading of a Caracas street, officials said on Thursday, boosting the death toll from nearly a month of violence to 20.
Congo warlord verdict a test for flagging international court
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The International Criminal Court passes judgment on alleged Congo warlord Germain Katanga on Friday in a key test of the prosecutors’ ability to bring solid cases and win convictions at the Hague-based tribunal.
Ex-guerrilla closes in on El Salvador election win
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – A former Marxist guerrilla leader looks poised to win El Salvador’s presidential election runoff on Sunday as voters embrace his ruling party’s social programs despite opposition allegations that he plans to veer the country to…
Exclusive: Syria to miss deadline to destroy 12 chemical arms sites-sources at OPCW
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Syria will miss a major deadline next week in the program to destroy its chemical weapons production facilities, sources at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said on Thursday.
Italy’s 5-Star loses more senators as internal dissent mounts
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s anti-establishment 5-Star Movement on Thursday lost five more senators who were critical of its leader Beppe Grillo in the latest sign of growing internal strife in the party that took a quarter of votes at last year’s election…
U.N. says west of Central African Republic ‘cleansed’ of Muslims
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Most Muslims have been driven out of the western half of conflict-torn Central African Republic, where thousands of civilians risk of being killed “right before our eyes,” the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said on Thurs…
