Venezuela quits regional rights bodies it calls U.S. pawns
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela withdrew on Tuesday from the Organization of American States’ (OAS) human-rights bodies, which it has denounced as pawns of U.S. foreign policy that have been antagonistic to the South American nation’s socialist governmen…
Bombs target Iraqi Shi’ites and Sunnis, at least 20 dead
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Bomb attacks targeting both Shi’ite Muslims and Sunnis killed at least 20 people in Iraq on Tuesday, part of a spiral of violence that raised has the specter of a return to the full-blown civil conflict of 2006-07.
U.S. wants to seize assets tied to Russian tax refund scheme
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. authorities are looking to seize luxury apartments and other property that they say was used by Russian companies to launder proceeds from a $230 million tax fraud.
Syria chemical plan can only work if U.S. rejects force: Putin
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian proposal for Syria to place its chemical weapons arsenal under international control will not succeed unless the United States and its allies reject the use of force against Damascus, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesda…
Russia calls U.N. Security Council meeting on Syria
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency closed-door meeting at 4:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday on Syria at Russia’s request, the U.N. press office said.
Concerned Israel sees some hope in Syrian weapons plan
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A skeptical Israel saw potential positives in Syria’s acceptance to surrender control of its chemical weapons to Russia, hoping the mooted deal would make Iran think twice about its nuclear project.
Child bride in Yemen dies of internal bleeding on wedding night: activist
SANAA (Reuters) – An eight-year-old Yemeni girl died of internal bleeding on her wedding night after marrying a man five times her age, a social activist and two local residents said, in a case that has caused an outcry in the media and revived debate …
Turkish police fire teargas to disperse Istanbul protesters
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish police fired rounds of teargas to disperse a crowd of several hundred demonstrators rallying in central Istanbul on Tuesday against the death of a protester in the southern province of Hatay earlier in the day, witnesses sa…
Kenyan deputy president orchestrated post-election brutality: ICC prosecutor
THE HAGUE/NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s deputy president played an important role in the post-election bloodbath that engulfed Kenya in early 2008, the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor told judges at the opening of his trial on Tuesday.
German police foil neo-Nazi model airplane bomb plan
BERLIN (Reuters) – German police have thwarted plans by neo-Nazis to attach makeshift bombs to model airplanes and target a gathering of their political opponents, prosecutors in the southern city of Freiburg said on Tuesday.
