Syrian doctors struggle to care for mentally ill and traumatized
(The identity of the correspondent has been withheld for security reasons)
Kosovo to create national army of 5,000 soldiers
PRISTINA (Reuters) – Kosovo’s government ordered the creation of a national army on Tuesday by upgrading a lightly armed civil response force six years after the majority-Albanian country seceded from Serbia.
Italy issues arrest warrants, seizes assets in Rome mafia crackdown
ROME (Reuters) – Italian police on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for 16 suspected mafia members and seized millions of euros in assets as part of a crackdown on organized crime clans in Rome.
India to announce parliamentary election dates on March 5
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India will announce the dates of a parliamentary election on March 5, the election commission said on Tuesday.
India’s Sahara chief ordered by court to remain in custody
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s highest court on Tuesday directed that the head of the Sahara conglomerate, Subrata Roy, remain in custody over the group’s failure to comply with its orders to repay investors in an outlawed multi-billion-dollar investmen…
India and Pakistan ramp up aid as they jostle for influence in Kabul
KABUL (Reuters) – India’s most important message for Afghanistan is that it is not leaving, and it is backing that message with the biggest aid package it has ever given another country.
Berlusconi denied permit to attend Dublin conference
MILAN (Reuters) – A Milan court rejected a request by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, whose passport was confiscated after his conviction for tax fraud, to leave Italy to attend a conference in Ireland, judicial sources said on Tuesday.
U.S. rights activist alleges Egypt police abuse
CAIRO (Reuters) – A U.S. rights activist on Tuesday accused Egyptian police of breaking her arm after they detained her in Cairo airport while she was on her way to a humanitarian visit to neighboring Gaza.
Strasser denies wrongdoing as bribery retrial begins
VIENNA (Reuters) – Former Austrian Interior Minister and European lawmaker Ernst Strasser professed his innocence on Tuesday as his retrial in a cash-for-laws case began.
Gunmen storm government complex in Iraq’s Samarra
TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) – Gunmen in military uniform broke into the city council and court house in Samarra in northern Iraq on Tuesday, holding the facility for four hours until police and army stormed the compound, the mayor and police officials said….
