U.S., NATO officials expect approval for Afghan troop deal
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Senior U.S. and NATO officials said on Tuesday they were confident Afghanistan’s elders and parliament would back a deal allowing American troops to stay there after 2014, playing down lingering concerns over the accord.
Explosion at Russian military training site kills six soldiers
MOSCOW (Reuters) – An explosion at a military training site in western Russia killed six airborne forces soldiers and slightly injured two more on Tuesday evening, the Defense Ministry said.
France wants U.S. spying allegations on European summit agenda
PARIS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – France is pushing to put allegations of spying by the United States against its European allies on the agenda of a summit of European leaders in Brussels on Thursday, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said.
Chile poll shows right-wing candidate further behind Bachelet
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chilean right-wing presidential candidate Evelyn Matthei has lost some ground in her uphill battle against the front-runner, former President Michelle Bachelet, according to a poll released on Tuesday.
West criticizes, China defends human rights record at U.N.
GENEVA/BEIJING (Reuters) – Western countries accused China on Tuesday of arresting activists, curbing Internet use and suppressing ethnic minorities, as the United Nations formally reviewed its rights record for the first time since Xi Jinping became p…
EU ministers urge Ukraine to stop bluffing on Tymoshenko
KIEV (Reuters) – Two European Union ministers urged Ukraine on Tuesday to stop “bluffing” and reach a deal on the release of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko because time was running out.
Putin says foreign foes use radical Islam to weaken Russia
UFA, Russia (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin accused foreign rivals on Tuesday of using radical Islam to weaken Russia and appealed to Muslim clerics to help reduce tensions after a deadly suicide bombing and nationalist riots.
Egypt orders trial of four policemen over killing of Islamist detainees
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s prosecutor general on Tuesday ordered the trial of four police officers charged with killing 39 Muslim Brotherhood members in August after they were picked up in the crackdown that followed the military overthrow of President …
Mozambique’s Renamo chief risks isolation after ending peace pact
MAPUTO/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Mozambique’s opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama, who is fleeing government forces in a remote jungle region, may have also exiled himself to the political wilderness by abandoning a 1992 peace pact that ended the country’…
Germany proposes plan to fill NATO’s defense gaps
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Germany called for closer military integration between groups of NATO countries on Tuesday as the alliance grappled with how to keep its defenses strong at a time of falling military spending.
