Abu Ghaith urged Qaeda recruits to ‘pledge’ to bin Laden: witness
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law, Suleiman Abu Ghaith, urged al Qaeda recruits en route to a training camp in Afghanistan to pledge their lives to bin Laden a few months before September 11, 2001, a government witness told jurors on Th…
Two dead in Venezuela violence as protests drag on
CARACAS (Reuters) – A Venezuelan soldier and a motorcyclist died in a confused melee sparked by the opposition’s barricading of a Caracas street, officials said on Thursday, boosting the death toll from nearly a month of violence to 20.
Congo warlord verdict a test for flagging international court
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The International Criminal Court passes judgment on alleged Congo warlord Germain Katanga on Friday in a key test of the prosecutors’ ability to bring solid cases and win convictions at the Hague-based tribunal.
Ex-guerrilla closes in on El Salvador election win
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – A former Marxist guerrilla leader looks poised to win El Salvador’s presidential election runoff on Sunday as voters embrace his ruling party’s social programs despite opposition allegations that he plans to veer the country to…
Exclusive: Syria to miss deadline to destroy 12 chemical arms sites-sources at OPCW
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Syria will miss a major deadline next week in the program to destroy its chemical weapons production facilities, sources at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said on Thursday.
Italy’s 5-Star loses more senators as internal dissent mounts
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s anti-establishment 5-Star Movement on Thursday lost five more senators who were critical of its leader Beppe Grillo in the latest sign of growing internal strife in the party that took a quarter of votes at last year’s election…
U.N. says west of Central African Republic ‘cleansed’ of Muslims
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Most Muslims have been driven out of the western half of conflict-torn Central African Republic, where thousands of civilians risk of being killed “right before our eyes,” the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said on Thurs…
French, Mali troops kill 10 suspected Islamist militants
PARIS (Reuters) – French and Malian forces have killed about 10 suspected Islamist fighters during an operation in northern Mali’s mountainous Adrar des Ifoghas region, French army spokesman Gilles Jaron said on Thursday.
Caribbean nations consider push for slavery reparations
KINGSTON (Reuters) – More than 150 years after European colonial powers abolished slavery, a coalition of Caribbean nations is considering legal action to seek a formal apology and monetary compensation.
Western countries alarmed as Libya slides towards chaos
ROME (Reuters) – Western countries voiced concern on Thursday that tensions in Libya could slip out of control in the absence of a functioning political system, and they urged the government and rival factions to start talking.
