Azerbaijan detains election watchdog chief
BAKU (Reuters) – Azerbaijan on Tuesday detained an activist in what his lawyer said was political retribution for his reporting of violations in elections in which President Ilham Aliyev won a third term.
Video of migrants sprayed for scabies stirs outrage in Italy
ROME (Reuters) – A video showing migrants standing naked in the cold while being sprayed for scabies stirred outrage in Italy on Tuesday and underscored what many have criticized as the European Union’s failure to tackle its immigration crisis humanely…
Brazil says not considering Snowden asylum
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil says it is not considering granting asylum to Edward Snowden even after the former U.S. National Security Agency contractor offered on Tuesday to help investigate revelations that the NSA has spied on Brazilians and their pr…
UK, U.S. to be allowed to question Libyan ex-spy chief over Lockerbie: Libya
LONDON (Reuters) – Libya plans to allow British and American investigators to question Muammar Gaddafi’s former intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi over the 1988 Lockerbie airline bombing, the Libyan justice minister has told Britain’s ITV news.
Kurz, 27, puts fresh face on Austrian foreign policy
VIENNA (Reuters) – Sebastian Kurz, who became Europe’s youngest foreign minister this week at the age of 27, hopes to refresh Austria’s stuffy image and present it as a modern country open to the world
Analysis: Mexican president races through reforms but risks loom
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A year ago, President Enrique Pena Nieto took office vowing a root-and-branch reform of Mexico’s economy even though he had no majority in Congress and faced accusations from the main opposition parties that he stole the electio…
India removes barriers to U.S. embassy as anger grows over diplomat’s arrest
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian authorities removed concrete security barriers in front of the U.S. embassy in New Delhi on Tuesday in apparent retaliation for the arrest and allegedly heavy-handed treatment of an Indian diplomat in New York.
Aleppo death toll from Syrian bombing tops 100: MSF
GENEVA (Reuters) – More than 100 people have been killed and others wounded by “barrel bombs” dropped by Syrian army helicopters on Aleppo that continued for a third day on Tuesday, Medecins Sans Frontieres MSF (Doctors Without Borders) said.
Denying Armenian ‘genocide’ is no crime: European court
STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) – Denying that mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey in 1915 were genocide is not a criminal offence, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday in a case involving Switzerland.
NATO commander concerned at Russian missile deployment
BERLIN (Reuters) – NATO’s military commander voiced concern on Tuesday at Russia’s deployment of Iskander missiles in its Baltic Sea territory of Kaliningrad, saying it showed the need for better communication between Russia and the Western alliance.
