Somali prime minister calls for aid to combat al Shabaab
GENEVA (Reuters) – Somalia’s prime minister appealed on Tuesday for international support to combat al Shabaab militants but said a military solution to their insurgency alone was not enough.
Berlusconi’s girlfriend, 28, tells press she wants to marry him
ROME (Reuters) – Silvio Berlusconi’s 28-year-old girlfriend, Francesca Pascale, wants to marry the four-times Italian prime minister, who she says first caught her eye when she was a teenager, according to a magazine interview published on Tuesday.
Merkel camp eyes tie-up with Social Democrats, shuns Greens
BERLIN (Reuters) – Angela Merkel’s conservatives appeared headed towards coalition talks with their main center-left rivals on Tuesday after heavyweights from the German chancellor’s camp ruled out a marriage with the environmentalist Greens.
U.S. prisoner in Bahrain gets 10 years in jail: lawyer
DUBAI (Reuters) – A U.S. citizen was sentenced to 10 years in jail in Bahrain on Tuesday on charges of attempted murder during a disturbance related to Shi’ite Muslim demands for greater rights.
Thousands protest in Sudan against lifting of fuel subsidies
OMDURMAN, Sudan (Reuters) – Sudanese police fired tear gas to break up anti-government protests in four cities on Tuesday, witnesses said as public discontent grew over the lifting of fuel subsidies.
Exclusive: Secretary of State Kerry to sign Arms Trade Treaty – diplomats
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will sign the Arms Trade Treaty regulating the international trade in conventional arms, diplomats from two countries said on Tuesday.
Iran hails ‘new era’ with nuclear talks at U.N.: report
DUBAI (Reuters) – A meeting between Iran’s top diplomats and world powers at the United Nations this week will start a “new era” in efforts to end a dispute with the West over Tehran’s disputed nuclear program, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Tues…
Britain’s Labour says to freeze energy prices if it wins election
BRIGHTON/LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Labour party will freeze gas and electricity bills until 2017 and force reform of the British utility market if it wins power in the May 2015 election, party leader Ed Miliband said on Tuesday.
Obama says diplomatic path toward Iran must be tested
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama told the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday that there should be a basis for an agreement on Iran’s nuclear ambitions but that the roadblocks will be difficult to overcome.
Hunger striking Russia’s punk band member moved to solitary cell
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A jailed member of Russia’s dissident Pussy Riot punk band was moved to a solitary confinement cell on Tuesday after she went on hunger strike to protest against what she called “slave labor” at the penal colony.
