In Pakistan, army adamant on fighting the other Taliban
KALAM, Pakistan (Reuters) – In the past few years, Pakistan’s Swat valley has been occupied by Islamic insurgents, undergone a bruising counter-offensive by the army and then flooded by waters that washed away acres of fruit orchards and steeply terrac…
Faith healing: Going cold turkey in Myanmar behind locked doors
NAUNG CHEIN, Myanmar (Reuters) – A year ago, Wun Naung Lay left his village in northern Myanmar to look for work and found heroin instead. Today, the skeletal 25-year-old is locked up and going cold turkey beneath a filthy blanket in a bamboo cell.
Remains of kidnapped journalist believed found in Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduran police said on Tuesday they believe a severed head and other body parts found in a region of the country ravaged by Mexican drug cartels belong to a popular television journalist kidnapped last month.
Fugitive Snowden likely Venezuela bound, says U.S. journalist
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Fugitive former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden will likely accept asylum in Venezuela to escape prosecution in the United States, said Glenn Greenwald, the U.S. journalist who first published the secret documents…
Snowden has not yet accepted asylum in Venezuela: WikiLeaks
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden has not yet formally accepted asylum in Venezuela, the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said on Tuesday after a Russian lawmaker posted a statement to that effect on Twitter and then delet…
Obama speaks with UAE Crown Prince, Qatar Emir about Egypt concerns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Tuesday spoke by phone to two Middle Eastern allies – Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed of the United Arab Emirates and Qatar Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani – to discuss concerns about violent protes…
Latin American nations fuming over NSA spying allegations
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Irate Latin American nations are demanding explanations from the United States about new allegations that it spied on both allies and foes in the region with secret surveillance programs.
Lawmakers urge firm U.S. line on China in bilateral talks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers influential on trade policy urged the Obama administration on Tuesday to press China in talks this week to halt the theft of intellectual property and curb practices that discriminate against American companies.
Quebec police open criminal probe after deadly train crash
LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec (Reuters) – Canadian police on Tuesday said they had opened a criminal investigation into the train explosion that likely killed 50 people in Lac-Megantic, and some 200 officers were scouring the town’s devastated center for clues….
Two Egyptians killed, six wounded in militant attack in Sinai
CAIRO (Reuters) – Two Egyptians were killed and six wounded when Islamist militants attacked a security checkpoint with rocket-propelled grenades late on Tuesday in the lawless North Sinai province near Egypt’s border with Israel, security sources said…
