Car bomb kills four in Kenyan capital
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Four people killed when a car bomb exploded outside a police station in a poor neighborhood of the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Wednesday, the Interior Ministry said.
Russia says it will respond if Ukraine interests attacked
KIEV (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the United States of being behind the political upheaval in Ukraine and said Moscow would respond if its interests came under attack.
Turkey’s Erdogan offers condolences for 1915 killings of Armenians
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan offered on Wednesday what the government said were unprecedented condolences to the grandchildren of Armenians killed in World War One by Ottoman soldiers.
Three charged in plot to ship chemical lab equipment from U.S. to Syria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three men have been charged in a conspiracy to export chemical laboratory equipment from the United States to Syria, according to an unsealed indictment released on Wednesday by the U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Pennsy…
Hamas, Abbas’s PLO announce reconciliation agreement
GAZA/RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – The Gaza-based Islamist group Hamas and President Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) announced a unity pact on Wednesday, deepening a crisis in U.S.-brokered peace talks with Israel.
U.S. Western Sahara draft urges respecting human rights, no U.N. monitors
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A U.S.-drafted resolution that would renew the U.N. peacekeeping mission in disputed Western Sahara urges all sides to respect human rights but does not ask the United Nations to monitor abuses, according to a text obtained b…
U.S. may charge ex-Blackwater guard with murder for Iraq massacre
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department is considering charging a former Blackwater Worldwide security guard with murder over his alleged role in a 2007 massacre of unarmed civilians in Baghdad, a federal prosecutor said on Wednesday.
Three charged in plot to ship chemical lab equipment from U.S. to Syria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three men have been charged in a conspiracy to export chemical laboratory equipment from the United States to Syria, according to an unsealed indictment released on Wednesday by the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsy…
Italy’s Berlusconi to start community service work next week
MILAN (Reuters) – Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Wednesday he would start doing community service with the elderly next week as part of a one-year tax fraud sentence.
Iran prison chief replaced after alleged beatings
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran said on Wednesday it had replaced the country’s prisons chief amid an uproar over alleged beating of political prisoners last week in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison
