Exclusive: Syria peace talks face delay as big powers split
AMMAN (Reuters) – International powers are unlikely to meet their goal of convening peace talks on Syria in Geneva next month as differences emerge between Washington and Moscow over opposition representation, Arab and Western officials said.
Mozambique’s Renamo says leader ‘hunted’, government cracks down
MAPUTO (Reuters) – Mozambique’s Renamo opposition party said on Wednesday the army was trying to hunt down and kill its leader after President Armando Guebuza said the former rebel group was threatening national sovereignty with renewed attacks.
Italian magazine says U.S. spies listened to pope, Vatican says unaware
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – An Italian magazine said on Wednesday that a United States spy agency had eavesdropped on Vatican phone calls, possibly including when former Pope Benedict’s successor was under discussion, but the Holy See said it had no knowl…
Italian Senate to hold open vote on expelling Berlusconi
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s Senate will hold an open vote next month on whether to expel Silvio Berlusconi from parliament because of a tax fraud conviction after an upper house committee narrowly rejected the former prime minister’s bid to make the ballo…
More than 20 killed in Zimbabwe crash involving fuel tanker
HARARE (Reuters) – More than 20 people were killed when a truck carrying mourners collided with a fuel tanker which then exploded in southeastern Zimbabwe on Wednesday, police said.
New video of kidnapped Czech women appears in Pakistan
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Two young Czech women kidnapped in southwest Pakistan in March said in a new video released by the Czech government on Wednesday they feared they would soon be killed.
Suicide bomber attacks Tunisian resort town
TUNIS (Reuters) – A suicide bomber blew himself up in the Tunisian tourist resort of Sousse on Wednesday, the first such assault in more than a decade in a country now battling Islamist militants boosted by chaos in neighboring Libya.
ANC looters rampage through central Cape Town
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Hundreds of protesters looted shops, overturned rubbish bins and smashed car windows in Cape Town on Wednesday as police struggled to contain a mob rampaging through the heart of South Africa’s top tourist city.
Poland asks court to hear CIA jails case in private
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s government has asked the European Court of Human Rights to exclude the media and the public from a court hearing next month on whether Poland hosted a secret CIA prison on its territory.
Iraqi PM faces criticism over sectarian violence in Washington visit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was due to meet with members of Congress on Wednesday as he seeks increased military aid to fight sectarian violence amid criticism from U.S. lawmakers that his government has contributed to th…
