Sweden jails Rwandan for life for role in 1994 genocide
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – A Swedish court on Thursday sentenced a man of Rwandan origin to life imprisonment for his role in the 1994 genocide in the African county, the first such case in the Nordic state.
Italy PM sees no impact on government from Berlusconi trials
ROME (Reuters) – Italian center-left Prime Minister Enrico Letta declared on Thursday that a series of criminal trials involving center-right leader Silvio Berlusconi would have no impact on the functioning of the coalition government between their two…
Lebanese president urges Hezbollah to pull out of Syria
BEIRUT (Reuters) – President Michel Suleiman has called on the Lebanese Shi’ite Muslim Hezbollah movement to pull its guerrillas out of Syria, saying any further involvement in its neighbor’s civil war would fuel instability in Lebanon.
ICC says Kenyan president’s trial to start on Nov 12
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The war crimes trial of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta will begin on November 12, judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) ruled on Thursday, accepting his lawyers’ request for more time to prepare his defense.
Iraq says proxy war over Syria threatens its neutrality
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq is being buffeted by both sides in the civil war raging across its border in Syria and Baghdad’s official policy of neutrality is at risk as the conflict spirals into a region-wide proxy war, its foreign minister said.
U.S. cites Russia, China among worst in human trafficking: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An annual U.S. State Department report on Wednesday cited Russia and China among the world’s worst offenders in fighting forced labor and sex trafficking, which could lead to U.S. sanctions, prompting angry rebuttals from Moscow …
German insurance claims for flood damage may be nearly $8 billion: AIR
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Insurance claims for flood damage in Germany may be as much as 6 billion euros ($8 billion), catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide said on Thursday, after the worst flooding in a decade.
Insight: Chinese whispers: Who wants to bet on the ‘Nicaragua Canal’?
MANAGUA/PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – For centuries since the colonization of the New World, entrepreneurs have dreamed of building a canal spanning Nicaragua to make it easier to tap Asia’s riches.
Syria’s warring sides trade wheat for flour
IDLIB PROVINCE, Syria (Reuters) – Away from the battlefield, some Syrian rebels are doing business with the same government they are trying to topple.
India sets up elaborate system to tap phone calls, e-mail
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has launched a wide-ranging surveillance program that will give its security agencies and even income tax officials the ability to tap directly into e-mails and phone calls without oversight by courts or parliament, several …
