Saudi spy chief, architect of Syria policy, replaced
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabian intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the architect of Riyadh’s attempts to bring down Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has been removed from his post, state media reported on Tuesday.
U.S. adopts harsher tone in U.N. envoy dispute with Iran
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States adopted a harsher tone toward Iran’s proposed U.N. ambassador on Tuesday, calling Tehran’s choice of Hamid Abutalebi “unacceptable” and tying him to the 1979-1981 U.S. hostage crisis in Tehran.
Exclusive: U.N. should halt arms shipments via Ivory Coast after China breach – panel
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – United Nations experts have called for the world body to stop allowing arms for its Mali peacekeepers to be shipped through Ivory Coast after they said a load of military hardware sent by China violated the country’s arms embargo.
Russia says four militants killed in Dagestan siege
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian security forces killed four suspected militants after laying siege to a home in the North Caucasus province of Dagestan on Tuesday, authorities said.
European parliament votes for compulsory ‘made-in’ labels
(Reuters) – The European Parliament voted on Tuesday to oblige manufacturers to label all non-food goods with their country of origin, a step designed to help consumers know what they are buying, but one that has divided industry.
Berlusconi ordered to do community service for tax conviction
MILAN (Reuters) – A court on Tuesday ordered former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to serve a tax fraud sentence by doing community service with the elderly, in a ruling that restricts his movements but not his political activity.
France’s Hollande would lose election vs. Sarkozy, Le Pen: poll
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande would be beaten at the polls by both his center-right predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy and far-right rival Marine Le Pen if he ran for re-election this week, an opinion survey showed on Tuesday.
Nigeria rebels abduct schoolgirls, government says will protect ‘African Davos’
ABUJA/MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Suspected Islamist insurgents abducted more than 100 female students in a night raid on a government secondary school in Nigeria’s northeast Borno state, a teacher said on Tuesday.
EU aid chief says race against rain to stop famine in South Sudan
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Humanitarian aid groups are in a “race against the rain to prevent famine” in impoverished South Sudan where violence has displaced more than one million people in the past four months, European Union aid chief Kristalina Geo…
Gandhi daughter steps up to fight for India’s Congress party
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s sister clashed with an estranged cousin running in the election on an opposition ticket on Tuesday, in a new sign of aggression that partymen hope will draw her deeper into active politics to …
