Hamas says Egyptian military building buffer zone with Gaza
GAZA (Reuters) – Egyptian security forces have destroyed some 20 houses along the border with Gaza, local residents said on Tuesday, in what the Palestinian enclave’s Islamist Hamas rulers fear is an effort to build a buffer zone to isolate them.
Egypt jails 11 Islamists for life for attacking army
CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian military court sentenced 11 supporters of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi to life imprisonment on Tuesday on charges of attacking the army, a military source said.
Top Indonesia policeman guilty of graft, could pave way for more arrests
JAKARTA (Reuters) – An Indonesian court sentenced a top police general to 10 years in jail on Tuesday for money-laundering and corruption in a major victory for the country’s main anti-graft agency.
Romania opens inquiry against communist gulag chief
BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania launched a criminal inquiry on Tuesday against a communist jail commander from the 1960s who is accused of crimes against humanity, as the country confronts its Stalinist past.
Syrian defector has evidence of March chemical attack: opposition
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A Syrian forensic medicine expert with evidence that President Bashar al-Assad’s administration used chemical weapons in an attack near Aleppo in March has defected to Turkey, the opposition said on Tuesday.
Unannounced Israel-U.S. missile test fuels jitters over Syria
JERUSALEM/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Israel tested a U.S.-backed missile system in the Mediterranean on Tuesday but did not announce the launch in advance, prompting a disclosure by Russia that kept the world on edge as the United States weighed an attack on S…
Bosnian miners stage protest 250 meters below ground
SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Around 140 miners have barricaded themselves 250 meters below ground at a mine in northern Bosnia and threatened on Tuesday to go on hunger strike in a row over recruitment and pay.
Somali president escapes unhurt from militant ambush
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia’s president escaped unhurt from an ambush on his military-escorted motorcade on Tuesday that al Qaeda-linked militants said they carried out.
Bashir, Kiir pledge to open new page in Sudan ties, keep oil running
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – The leaders of long-time enemies Sudan and South Sudan pledged at a summit in Khartoum on Tuesday to end their conflicts and honor an agreement over vital cross-border oil exports.
Syrian refugee numbers reach two million in ‘tragedy of century’: U.N.
GENEVA (Reuters) – More than 2 million refugees have now fled Syria’s civil war in human suffering unparalleled in recent history, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
