Militant opposition groups step up crimes in Syria: U.N. report
GENEVA (Reuters) – Militant opposition groups in Syria, including foreign fighters invoking jihad or holy war, have stepped up killings and other crimes in the north, U.N. human rights investigators said on Monday.
Insight: After Syria, Iran laments its own chemical weapons victims
DUBAI (Reuters) – An Iranian war veteran fell into a coma in a Tehran hospital last week after suffering respiratory failure, his lungs ravaged by mustard gas during the Iran-Iraq war 30 years ago.
South Korea military shoots man trying to float across river to North
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s military shot and killed a man who undertook a rare attempt to enter North Korea on Monday by floating across a river that runs near the heavily militarized border, an official in Seoul said.
Fire breaks out on Russian nuclear submarine
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) – A fire burned for five hours on an atomic-powered submarine undergoing repairs near Russia’s eastern port of Vladivostok on Monday, but naval and shipyard officials said there was no risk of a radiation leak and nobody w…
Indonesian president struggles to find successor
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Beset by a foundering economy and graft investigations into senior members of his party, Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is struggling to find a successor.
Cambodian opposition rallies for second day after protest death
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Thousands of opposition supporters gathered in Cambodia’s capital on Monday, a day after police used force to scatter protesters challenging a disputed election win by Prime Minister Hun Sen, sparking clashes in which one man was…
Myanmar to grant U.N. nuclear watchdog wider access
VIENNA (Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear watchdog will gain wider inspection powers in Myanmar under an agreement to be signed this week, in a further sign of the formerly army-ruled Asian state opening up to the outside world.
U.S., France, UK, seek tough U.N. Syria resolution: France
PARIS (Reuters) – France, Britain and the United States agreed at three-way Paris talks on Monday to seek a “strong and robust” U.N. resolution that sets precise and binding deadlines on removal of chemical weapons, the office of French President Franc…
Greek police scuffle with school guards, teachers kick off strike
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek police fired teargas to disperse school guards trying to enter the Administrative Reforms Ministry in central Athens on Monday as teachers began a strike against public sector layoffs and forced transfers.
Chemical weapons deal wins time for Syria’s Assad but at a cost
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons bargain with Russia and the United States offers another political and military lifeline to the Syrian president, just two years after he was dismissed in Washington as a “dead man walking”.
