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.
Turkey detains ministers’ sons, businessmen in graft probe
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish police detained sons of three ministers along with some prominent businessmen in a corruption inquiry on Tuesday, state officials said, in what was widely seen as a challenge to Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan by a powerful I…
South Sudan hit by clashes for second day, death toll at least 26
JUBA (Reuters) – Clashes broke out again in the South Sudanese capital Juba on Tuesday, a day after President Salva Kiir said security forces had put down an attempted coup by supporters of his former deputy.
British surgeon jailed in Syria dies in detention: family
LONDON (Reuters) – A British surgeon who was arrested last November within 48 hours of arriving in Syria to offer his services as an emergency doctor has died in jail, his family said on Tuesday.
Israel sends 150 protesting African runaways back to jail
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli police on Tuesday sent back to custody about 150 African migrants who had abandoned a desert detention center in protest against a new law allowing them to be kept there indefinitely.
Six U.S. soldiers killed in helicopter crash in Afghanistan
KABUL (Reuters) – Six U.S. soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, NATO said, the largest death toll in a single incident to hit the international force in months.
Car explodes near Hezbollah base in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley
BEIRUT (Reuters) – An explosives-laden car blew up on Tuesday in a remote region of the Bekaa Valley controlled by Lebanon’s Shi’ite Hezbollah movement, killing the driver and wounding at least two people who were pursuing the vehicle, security sources…
