Russia says foils plot to attack chemical arms facility
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian authorities said on Tuesday they had foiled a plot by Islamist radicals to bomb a chemical weapons facility and had arrested two suspects from the North Caucasus, where Moscow is battling an Islamist insurgency.
Officials say Egypt arrests Mursi supporter linked to Cairo attack
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian security officials said on Tuesday that authorities had arrested a supporter of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi suspected of involvement in a rocket-propelled grenade attack on a state-owned satellite station in Cair…
Angola’s Dos Santos says relations with Portugal ‘not well’
LUANDA (Reuters) – Angola’s President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos said on Tuesday his country’s relationship with Portugal, its former colonial ruler and one of its main trading partners, was “not well” and not conducive to the creation of a planned strate…
Moscow police tighten security to prevent riots during Eid
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Police stepped up security in Moscow on Tuesday to prevent a repeat of rioting over the killing of an ethnic Russian as crowds of Muslims celebrated the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha.
Mother of missionary jailed in North Korea pleads with U.S. for help
SEOUL (Reuters) – The mother of a U.S. missionary jailed in North Korea for state subversion pleaded on Tuesday for the U.S. government to help secure her ailing son’s release as she ended a trip to see him.
Italy rescues 300 migrants, sends navy ships, drones on patrols
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s navy rescued about 300 migrants in the waters between Sicily and Libya on Tuesday as the government deployed ships, helicopters and unmanned drones to help avert further shipwrecks that have already drowned hundreds this month….
Bomb at Myanmar luxury hotel wounds American tourist
YANGON (Reuters) – It was just before midnight when the crude time-bomb exploded in the ninth-floor guest room in the luxurious Traders Hotel in Myanmar’s biggest city, badly wounding an American tourist and showering the streets below with glass.
Mosque bombing kills 8 Sunni worshippers in northern Iraq
KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) – A bomb exploded near a mosque in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Tuesday, killing eight Sunni worshippers after the first prayer of the Muslim Feast of Sacrifice, or Eid al-Adha, police and medical sources said.
Jailing of wheelchair-bound Beijing airport bomber sparks anger
BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese man in a wheelchair who detonated a home-made bomb in Beijing’s airport after trying to draw attention to a nearly decade-long legal battle was sentenced to six years in jail, his lawyer said on Tuesday, sparking widesprea…
Typhoon Nari hits Vietnam, 122,000 people evacuated
HANOI (Reuters) – Typhoon Nari knocked down trees and damaged hundreds of houses in central Vietnam early on Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people, state media said.
