Russian helicopter crash kills at least 19
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A helicopter packed with passengers crashed in Siberia on Tuesday, killing at least 19 of the 28 people aboard, Russia’s civil aviation commission said.
Magnitude 6.2 quake strikes Indonesia’s Sumatra island-USGS
SYDNEY (Reuters) – An earthquake measuring 6.2 magnitude struck the northern tip of Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
UAE court jails scores of Emiratis in coup plot trial: TV
ABU DHABI (Reuters) – A United Arab Emirates court on Tuesday convicted and jailed most of 94 Emiratis accused of plotting a coup, Abu Dhabi television said, at the end of trial analysts said reflected official mistrust of Islamist groups following the…
South Africa’s De Klerk in hospital for heart procedure
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s last white president, FW de Klerk, will undergo a procedure on Tuesday to install a pacemaker, his assistant said.
China’s Xinjiang offers rewards after deadliest unrest in four years
BEIJING (Reuters) – China announced rewards of up to 100,000 yuan ($16,000) on Tuesday for information leading the arrest of those responsible for the deadliest violence in four years in the vast far-western region of Xinjiang, dominated by Muslim Uigh…
South Africa’s Mandela still ‘critical but stable’
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Ailing anti-apartheid leader and former South African President Nelson Mandela remained in hospital on Monday in a “critical but stable” condition, the government said.
Taliban attack on supply base in Afghan capital kills six
KABUL (Reuters) – Taliban insurgents including a suicide bomber in a truck killed six people in an attack on a foreign logistics and supply company in Kabul on Tuesday, police said, the latest in a string of daring assaults in the Afghan capital.
Exclusive: Arms ship seized by Yemen may have been Somalia-bound: U.N.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – An Iranian ship laden with arms seized by Yemeni authorities in January may also have been bound for Somalia, according to a confidential U.N. report seen by Reuters on Monday.
Suicide bomber kills 22 in Iraqi Shi’ite mosque
MUQDADIYA, Iraq (Reuters) – A suicide bomber blew himself up at a mourning ceremony inside a Shi’ite mosque in Iraq late on Monday, killing at least 22 people, police said.
Pakistan’s commercial hub faces growing extortion menace
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – One afternoon a stranger called at Muhammad Faizanullah’s stationery shop in Karachi, Pakistan’s commercial capital, and wordlessly handed the man behind the counter two items: a piece of paper with a phone number scrawled…
