Russia says five militants, policeman killed in Caucasus fighting
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian security forces killed five militants, including a suspected organiser of a deadly December car bombing, in a gunbattle on Tuesday in the North Caucasus province of Dagestan, authorities said.
Yemen security forces free Western hostages soon after kidnap
SANAA (Reuters) – Yemeni security forces freed two Westerners unharmed on Tuesday shortly after they were kidnapped by gunmen in the capital Sanaa, police sources said, in an incident highlighting the growing security threat in the country.
Kenya orders Somali refugees back to camps after attacks
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya on Tuesday ordered all Somali refugees living in urban areas to return to their camps in a bid to end attacks by Islamist militants carried out in retaliation for Kenya’s intervention in neighboring Somalia.
Venezuela arrests three air force generals ‘plotting coup’
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela has arrested three air force generals accused of plotting a coup in league with opposition politicians during the country’s rumbling civil unrest, the president said on Tuesday.
Russian military holds exercises in breakaway Moldova region: agency
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s military staged training exercises on Tuesday in Transdniestria, a breakaway sliver of Moldova that is a focus of tension following Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region.
Unusual large number of tremors stirs fear in northern Chile
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – An unusually large number of tremors following a recent earthquake in northern Chile has unnerved local residents – emptying beaches, pushing up sales of emergency rations, and raising concerns about what may lie ahead for the copp…
AU brands Central African Republic militia ‘terrorists’ after peacekeeper killed
BANGUI (Reuters) – The African Union on Tuesday branded militia targeting Muslims in Central African Republic as “terrorists” and said they would be treated as enemy combatants, a day after killing a Congolese peacekeeper.
At summit, U.S. and Russia agree on nuclear terrorism threat
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – World leaders called on countries on Tuesday to cut their use and their stocks of highly enriched nuclear fuel to the minimum to help prevent al Qaeda-style militants from obtaining material for atomic bombs.
Ireland to investigate bugging of police phone calls
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland is to investigate the illegal bugging of police phone conversations that has led to calls for the justice minister to resign.
Islamist rebels seize first coastal village in north Syria
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamist rebels captured a village on Syria’s Mediterranean coast for the first time and battled to hold territory abutting the nearby Turkish border taken from President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, activists said on Tuesday.
