U.S. risks igniting region with Syria attack: Iran minister
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The United States will ignite a fire across the Middle East if it attacks Syria, Iran’s new foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on a visit to Iraq on Sunday, warning Western powers against warmongering.
Ongoing Jewish settlement is an obstacle to peace: Qatar foreign minister
PARIS (Reuters) – Qatar’s Foreign Minister said on Sunday ongoing construction by Jewish settlers was an obstacle to achieving an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.
Army summoned to quell communal violence that kills 15 in north Indian state
LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) – The Indian army was called in, an unusual measure, to contain communal violence pitting Hindus against Muslims that killed at least 15 people in northern Uttar Pradesh state.
Syrian forces may have used gas without Assad’s permission: paper
BERLIN (Reuters) – Syrian government forces may have carried out a chemical weapons attack close to Damascus without the personal permission of President Bashar al-Assad, Germany’s Bild am Sonntag paper reported on Sunday, citing German intelligence.
Insight: Assad forces fear rebel rampage in aftermath of U.S. strikes
BEIRUT (Reuters) – It isn’t the U.S. cruise missiles that terrify Saleem, a pro-government militia fighter who survived some of the toughest battles of Syria’s civil war. It’s the rebel onslaught that could begin once American bombs start to fall.
China releases prominent dissident early: group
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has released from prison early a prominent dissident and journalist who was jailed in 2005 for leaking state secrets abroad after Yahoo! was accused of helping authorities identify him, a rights group said.
Forty years after coup, Pinochet again divides Chile
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Four decades after a military coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power in Chile, a fierce debate over his long rule has shaken up the presidential election, with some right-wing politicians under fire for their past support of t…
NATO airstrike kills insurgents, possibly civilians, in Afghanistan
KABUL (Reuters) – A NATO airstrike targeting insurgents in Afghanistan’s lawless east hit a pickup truck carrying up to ten militants, officials said on Sunday, amid reports that at least eight civilians, including seven women and children, were also a…
ICC trials of Kenya’s leaders threaten to reopen wounds
ELDORET, Kenya (Reuters) – The approaching trials of Kenya’s president and his deputy in The Hague are worrying the upland communities that were rent apart by a post-election bloodbath more than five years ago, violence the two men are accused of orche…
Mafia hurt by asset seizures but still too strong to beat
NAPLES, Italy (Reuters) – Syringes litter the floor of an abandoned school in the crime-plagued Scampia district of northern Naples, alongside tin foil used for crack cocaine, a filthy mattress and piles of clothing.
