Kenyan deputy president orchestrated post-election brutality: ICC prosecutor
THE HAGUE/NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s deputy president played an important role in the post-election bloodbath that engulfed Kenya in early 2008, the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor told judges at the opening of his trial on Tuesday.
German police foil neo-Nazi model airplane bomb plan
BERLIN (Reuters) – German police have thwarted plans by neo-Nazis to attach makeshift bombs to model airplanes and target a gathering of their political opponents, prosecutors in the southern city of Freiburg said on Tuesday.
Russia says U.N. resolution proposal ‘unacceptable’
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia told France on Tuesday that a proposal to adopt a U.N. Security Council resolution holding the Syrian government responsible for the possible use of chemical weapons was unacceptable.
Russia ready to negotiate U.N. Syria resolution, rules out force
PARIS (Reuters) – Russia’s ambassador to France said on Tuesday Moscow was ready to negotiate a U.N. resolution that foresees international control of Syria’s chemical weapons, but ruled out a recourse to use force to impose it.
Syria prompts Europe to question U.S. leadership will
PARIS (Reuters) – The United States’ uncertainty over how to respond to a deadly chemical weapons attack in Syria has left close European allies wondering whether Washington remains ready to play the world leadership role it has long assumed.
Assad air force back in action in Damascus, hitting rebels
AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian warplanes bombed rebel suburbs of Damascus on Tuesday for the first time in three weeks, in an offensive that opposition activists said showed President Bashar al-Assad no longer feared attack by the United States.
Turkish police fire teargas to disperse Istanbul protesters
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish police fired rounds of teargas to disperse a crowd of several hundred demonstrators rallying in central Istanbul on Tuesday against the death of a protester in the southern province of Hatay earlier in the day, witnesses sa…
Defector blames Syria for ‘cold murder’ after March chemical attack
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A Syrian forensic expert who defected to Turkey last month said on Tuesday he had documents confirming President Bashar al-Assad’s government had used chemical weapons near Aleppo in March, and called their use “cold murder”.
Mugabe appoints ZANU-PF lawyer as Zimbabwe finance minister
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe named a new cabinet on Tuesday after his disputed re-election in July, handing the finance ministry to a combative political lieutenant with little experience in running a treasury.
Impromptu or scripted, Syria plan lets Russia play the peacemaker
MOSCOW (Reuters) – If it really was just an offhand remark by the U.S. Secretary of State that gave Russia the chance to play peacemaker in the Syrian conflict, Moscow is certainly not letting on.
