Police officer feared Woolwich suspect would kill her, court hears
LONDON (Reuters) – A police officer who arrived shortly after a British soldier was hacked to death in broad daylight on a London street thought she too was going to be killed by one of the suspected murderers, the Old Bailey was told on Tuesday.
Perhaps one purge too many for power behind North Korean throne
SEOUL (Reuters) – The man considered the power behind the throne in secretive North Korea is believed to be out of a job, thanks to his nephew and leader Kim Jong Un, and it wasn’t immediately clear if this time he can find the way back.
U.N. falls short of feeding Syria’s hungry as winter bites
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations said on Tuesday it had delivered food to 3.4 million people in Syria in November, falling short again of its monthly target of 4 million as heavy fighting kept it from reaching hungry people in contested areas.
Suicide bomb at Damascus office kills four: state media
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A suicide bomb attack at a Syrian defense ministry office in central Damascus killed at least four people on Tuesday, state media and a monitoring group said.
Italian prosecutors preparing manslaughter probe into factory blaze
ROME (Reuters) – Italian prosecutors are preparing to open a manslaughter investigation over a fire which killed seven Chinese workers at a factory in Tuscany on Sunday, a disaster which highlighted rampant abuses in a sprawling network of illegal garm…
Attack on Iraqi government complex kills nine: police, medics
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Nine people were killed and 17 wounded in a suicide and mortar attack on a government compound in the northern Iraqi town of Tarmiya on Tuesday, police and medics said.
New Pakistani Taliban chief comes home to lead insurgency
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) – The elusive new chief of the Pakistani Taliban, Mullah Fazlullah, has returned to his homeland from a secret mountain hideout in neighboring Afghanistan to lead the insurgency, militant and intelligence sources sa…
Limitations of nuclear deal temper Iranians’ enthusiasm
(Reuters) – It was a flourishing packing business in Iran’s historic city of Isfahan, but the last two years of harsh economic sanctions brought the family enterprise to its knees.
Egyptian blogger arrested in widening crackdown
CAIRO (Reuters) – A prominent Egyptian blogger said on Tuesday he had been arrested, the latest political activist to be detained in a widening crackdown on dissent by the army-backed government.
France to allow private security on shipping fleet: PM
PARIS (Reuters) – France will allow private security forces to protect its shipping fleet against the threat of piracy, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said in an interview published on Tuesday.
