Nigeria drops arms trafficking charges against Russian sailors
LAGOS (Reuters) – A Nigerian court dropped charges of arms trafficking against seven Russian sailors on Tuesday, their lawyer said, ending a year-long case that has frayed diplomatic relations between Nigeria and Russia.
Chile poll puts Bachelet ahead, but suggests election run-off
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Center-left candidate Michelle Bachelet is the favorite to win Chile’s presidential election, but rivals gaining ground may push the vote into a run-off, according to an Ipsos poll on voting intentions.
Chemical weapons watchdog to send more inspectors to Syria
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The global chemical weapons watchdog said on Tuesday it would send more inspectors to Syria to help destroy President Bashar al-Assad’s stockpile of toxic munitions.
Prominent Greek journalist on trial again over ‘Lagarde list’
ATHENS (Reuters) – A Greek investigative journalist who published the names of more than 2,000 wealthy Greeks with Swiss bank accounts appeared in court on Tuesday to stand trial again for violating privacy laws.
Left-right coalition would put German radicals in limelight
BERLIN (Reuters) – They lost 1.4 million votes and ceded “safe” seats in their east German stronghold to Angela Merkel’s conservatives, but the radical Left are smiling about an election outcome that may finally upgrade them from pariahs to the politic…
Divers find body thought to be missing waiter in Concordia wreck
ROME (Reuters) – Divers searching the wreckage of the Costa Concordia cruise ship on Tuesday found remains of a body thought to be one of the two missing victims, Italian officials said.
Leader of British anti-Islamist protest group quits over extremism
LONDON (Reuters) – The leader of a British anti-Islamist protest group accused of inflaming racial tensions said on Tuesday he was quitting the organization because he no longer felt able to control far-right extremists.
Religious tension in Pakistan as Muslims dig up Hindu grave
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A crowd of Islamic fundamentalists dug up the grave of a Hindu man in Pakistan, police said on Tuesday, in the latest sign of growing religious tension in the increasingly unstable province of Sindh.
North Korea puts army on alert, warns U.S. of ‘horrible disaster’
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea said on Tuesday its military would be put on high alert and be ready to launch operations, stepping up tension after weeks of rhetoric against the United States and South Korea, whom it accuses of instigating hostility.
Special Report: The Darfur conflict’s deadly gold rush
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – With its scrubland, unpaved roads and mud brick huts, the Jebel Amer area in Darfur, western Sudan, can look like a poor and desolate place. Under the ground, though, lies something sought by people everywhere: gold.
