Russia tightens squeeze on Ukraine with gas price rise
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian natural gas producer Gazprom announced a more than 40 percent increase in the price of gas for Ukraine on Tuesday, stepping up economic pressure on Kiev in its crisis in relations with Moscow.
Afghan forces say seize tons of explosives ahead of election
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan security forces have seized more than 22 tons of explosives, enough to make hundreds of bombs, the interior ministry said on Tuesday, four days before a presidential election.
Humanitarian crisis looms in western Myanmar as foreign aid workers leave
DHAECHAUNG VILLAGE, Myanmar (Reuters) – With food stocks dwindling and prices rising by the hour in his camp for displaced Rohingya in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, Hla Maung decided to ask a friend in the neighboring village for food.
Anger in China at brutality in chemical plant protests
BEIJING (Reuters) – Protests against a proposed chemical plant in southern China spread to the provincial capital of Guangzhou on Tuesday, even as authorities signaled they may back down on their construction plans in attempt to head off more unrest.
China angered as detained Uighur academic wins rights prize
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s foreign ministry expressed anger on Tuesday after a prominent detained Uighur academic won a human rights award in the United States, saying that he was a suspected criminal.
China warns Manila’s arbitration case seriously damages ties
MANILA (Reuters) – China warned the Philippines on Tuesday that its arbitration case before the United Nations over a maritime dispute “seriously damaged bilateral relations” and called on Manila to return to negotiations.
Kuwaiti minister rejects U.S. accusations of Syria terror funding
KUWAIT (Reuters) – Kuwait’s justice and Islamic affairs minister has rejected remarks from a senior U.S. official that he called for jihad in Syria and promoted the funding of terrorism, state news agency KUNA said, citing a cabinet statement released …
U.S. ambassador to India resigns after diplomatic row
NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. ambassador to India has resigned following a row over the arrest of a junior Indian diplomat in New York that pushed relations between the world’s biggest democracies to their lowest ebb in more than a decade.
Kerry meets Netanyahu again in effort to prolong peace talks
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the second time in less than 12 hours on Tuesday in an effort salvage stalled peace talks with the Palestinians.
Al Qaeda says security steps show Saudi rulers controlled by U.S.
DUBAI (Reuters) – Al Qaeda’s Yemen branch has mocked tough new counter-terrorism measures adopted by neighboring Saudi Arabia, saying they would not deter the Islamist group’s fighters and that they proved the kingdom was in the pay of the United State…
