High profile attacks on women in Afghanistan undermine rights campaign
KABUL/GHAZNI, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Taliban fighters have kidnapped a female parliamentarian who was travelling by car through Afghanistan’s central Ghazni province with her children, a local police commander said on Tuesday, the latest in a string o…
Yemeni Nobel winner says Egypt coup deadly for Arab democracy
CAIRO (Reuters) – Tawakul Karman, who shared a Nobel peace prize for her pro-democracy campaigning in Yemen, has said she views the Egyptian army’s overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi as a death knell for Arab democratic movements.
Iraq Kirkuk oil flow to Turkey halted: Iraqi officials
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A bomb attack stopped oil flows through the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline linking Iraq to Turkey early on Tuesday, Iraqi oil officials said.
Two suspected al Qaeda militants killed in Yemen drone strike
ADEN (Reuters) – At least two suspected Islamist militants were killed in a drone missile strike in Yemen’s southern Shabwa province, the latest in a surge since Washington warned of possible attacks by al Qaeda in the region.
Israel shoots down rocket targeting resort city Eilat
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel shot down a rocket aimed at its southern resort city of Eilat early on Tuesday, blowing it up in mid air near the border with Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, a military official said.
Analysis: Saudi feud too bitter for new Iran president to fix
RIYADH/DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah’s disdain for Iran leaps from U.S. embassy cables. “May God prevent us from falling victim to their evil,” he told U.S. officials, according to a cable released by WikiLeaks. According to another, h…
Russia says Syria peace talks unlikely before October
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia wants a Syria peace conference to be held as soon as possible but it is unlikely to go ahead before October because there is a busy diplomatic schedule before then, a Russian diplomat said on Tuesday.
‘Leftover women’ in China face tough choices in looking for love
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Xu Jiajie has gone on countless blind dates and to numerous match-making events over the past five years in search of a husband.
Deadly Iraq bombings target cafe, school and playground
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – At least 16 people were killed and 41 wounded on Monday in a suicide bomb attack on a crowded cafe in Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, part of the worst wave of violence in Iraq in around five years.
Venezuela’s Maduro to seek decree powers in graft fight
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday he will ask for decree powers last used by his predecessor Hugo Chavez to ramp up a fight against corruption that has begun to cost him politically with supporters.
