Divided Damascus apprehensive, hopeful over Western strike
DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Shops in Damascus are open, and traffic chokes the main thoroughfares, but the mood in the capital, exhausted by more than two years of civil war, is growing restive as Syria faces the prospect of a military strike by Western power…
France’s Hollande urges U.N. action on Central African Republic
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande called on the U.N. Security Council and the African Union on Tuesday to stabilize the situation in the Central African Republic, warning it was at risk of going the way of Somalia.
Ukrainian serial killer dies in prison
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s most prolific serial killer, Anatoly Onoprienko, who killed 52 people in a six-year reign of terror up to 1996, has died in jail, the state penitentiary service said on Tuesday.
Tanzanian-Zambian rail firm sacks 1,000 unpaid striking workers
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – The Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority has sacked more than 1,000 workers who went on strike last week demanding payment of unpaid wages, paralyzing a line that carries freight and passengers, a TAZARA spokesman said on Tuesday…
Italy says Syria has passed ‘point of no-return’ with chemical weapons
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta said that he agreed with British Prime Minister David Cameron in a phone call on Tuesday that Syria’s use of chemical weapons was “unacceptable”, according to a statement.
France says ready to punish those who gassed civilians in Syria
PARIS (Reuters) – President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday that France stood ready to punish those behind a chemical attack on civilians in Damascus last week and would increase its military support to the Syrian opposition.
Former German President to be tried on corruption charges
BERLIN (Reuters) – Former German President Christian Wulff will go on trial in November on corruption charges, more than 18 months after the man once tipped as a successor to Chancellor Angela Merkel resigned from the largely ceremonial role in disgrac…
South Africa strikes escalate with petrol stations dispute
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s petrol station and car dealership workers on Tuesday announced a strike for higher wages next week, signaling more labor disruption to a struggling economy also facing stoppages in gold mines.
UK’s Cameron: Any Syria action must be specific, avoid wider war
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday that any military action against Syria must be specific and not entail being dragged into a wider Middle East conflict.
Ukraine Femen group accuse police after arms find
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian topless feminist group Femen accused the police of planting explosives and a gun during a raid on their headquarters in Kiev headquarters on Tuesday in a bid to close their organization down.
