Attack on Iraqi government complex kills nine: police, medics
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Nine people were killed and 17 wounded in a suicide and mortar attack on a government compound in the northern Iraqi town of Tarmiya on Tuesday, police and medics said.
New Pakistani Taliban chief comes home to lead insurgency
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) – The elusive new chief of the Pakistani Taliban, Mullah Fazlullah, has returned to his homeland from a secret mountain hideout in neighboring Afghanistan to lead the insurgency, militant and intelligence sources sa…
Limitations of nuclear deal temper Iranians’ enthusiasm
(Reuters) – It was a flourishing packing business in Iran’s historic city of Isfahan, but the last two years of harsh economic sanctions brought the family enterprise to its knees.
Egyptian blogger arrested in widening crackdown
CAIRO (Reuters) – A prominent Egyptian blogger said on Tuesday he had been arrested, the latest political activist to be detained in a widening crackdown on dissent by the army-backed government.
France to allow private security on shipping fleet: PM
PARIS (Reuters) – France will allow private security forces to protect its shipping fleet against the threat of piracy, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said in an interview published on Tuesday.
U.N. fed 3.4 million Syrians in November, but many still out of reach
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations said on Tuesday it had delivered food to 3.4 million people in Syria in November, the same as the month before, but falling short again of its monthly target of 4 million as heavy fighting kept it from reaching con…
Kurds, Baghdad could agree this month on energy deals: Turkey
ANKARA (Reuters) – Iraqi Kurdistan and the central government in Baghdad, at loggerheads over oil exports and revenue sharing, could come to an agreement this month over energy deals, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said on Tuesday.
Italy PM Letta to seek new confidence vote on December 11
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta will seek a confidence vote in parliament on December 11 to confirm his new majority after Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party pulled out of the ruling coalition, the government said.
Croats set constitutional bar to same-sex marriage
ZAGREB (Reuters) – Croats voted overwhelmingly in favor of defining marriage in the constitution as a “union of man and woman” on Sunday, a move initiated by Roman Catholic groups but criticized by opponents as discrimination against homosexuals.
Congo’s Kabila wants to conclude talks with rebels: statement
KAMPALA (Reuters) – Congo’s president wants talks with rebels in the country’s east concluded as soon as possible, Ugandan and Congolese statements said, although there was no sign of a breakthrough on the wording of an accord that scuppered a signing …
