Syrian rebels kill dozens of Shi’ites in eastern town
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Sunni Muslim insurgents have killed about 60 Shi’ite Muslims in a rebel-held eastern Syrian town where President Bashar al-Assad’s agents had been trying to recruit and arm fighters for his cause, according to opposition sources on W…
EU justice chief seeks answers on U.S. data spying
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s chief justice official has written to the U.S. attorney general demanding an explanation for the collection of foreign nationals’ data following disclosures about the “PRISM” spy program.
No one’s picking up in North Korea day after talks with South break down
SEOUL (Reuters) – A day after snubbing Seoul by offering to send a junior official to hold the first supposedly high-level talks between the two Koreas in six years, North Korea appeared to be refusing to pick up a phone line it re-established just las…
Gulf Shi’ites fear rising sectarian rhetoric over Syria
DUBAI (Reuters) – Shi’ite Muslims in the Gulf, alarmed by the shrill sectarian rhetoric of some Sunni clerics after Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia entered Syria’s civil war, fear they will be blamed and may be victimized for the bloodshed.
Across Asia, officials’ e-mails may be vulnerable
JAKARTA/BANGKOK (Reuters) – Government and security officials in parts of Asia have been sending sensitive information and policy documents via e-mail services offered by U.S. web giants, and concerns are spreading that these may have been monitored an…
Across Asia, officials’ e-mails may be vulnerable
JAKARTA/BANGKOK (Reuters) – Government and security officials in parts of Asia have been sending sensitive information and policy documents via e-mail services offered by U.S. web giants, and concerns are spreading that these may have been monitored an…
Preview: Iran election offers choice, but little change
DUBAI (Reuters) – Friday’s presidential election in Iran is unlikely to bring significant change to the Islamic republic, whose supreme leader has ensured hardline candidates dominate the field. But the sole moderate could yet upset the race.
Polish prosecutors get more time for CIA jail probe
WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish prosecutors have extended until early October the five-year-old criminal investigation into allegations that the CIA ran secret jails on Polish soil, a case human rights campaigners say the authorities are deliberately draggin…
Khamenei is erasing Iran’s presidency, Bani-Sadr says
VERSAILLES, France (Reuters) – Exiled former Iranian president Abolhassan Bani-Sadr accused Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Tuesday of using this week’s presidential election to weaken the office and cement his own power.
Pakistan tries anew to end insurgency in resource-rich Baluchistan
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan has pledged to rein in human rights abuses by security forces in the huge, resource-rich province of Baluchistan as a first step towards starting talks to end a long-running insurgency waged by guerrillas seeking an indep…
