U.S. sanctions four Hezbollah supporters in West Africa
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States imposed sanctions on four Lebanese citizens on Tuesday, accusing them of fundraising and recruiting for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in West Africa.
Russia would consider asylum for U.S. cyber leaker
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia would consider granting asylum to the American who has exposed top-secret U.S. surveillance programs, if he were to ask for it, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said on Tuesday.
Booz Allen fires Snowden for violating firm’s ethics, policies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Contracting firm Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp said on Tuesday it has fired Edward Snowden, who admitted to releasing information on the U.S. government’s broad monitoring of American’s phone and Internet data, for violating t…
Insight: Ahead of vote, ‘kidnapped’ Iran reformists imprisoned at home
DUBAI (Reuters) – Four years after Iranians took to the streets to demonstrate against the results of a presidential election, the authorities are taking no chances this time, keeping opposition leaders confined under house arrest with doors and window…
Turkey detains a ‘main perpetrator’ of bombings that killed 51
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey said it had detained a “main perpetrator” of the bombings that killed 51 people near the Syrian border last month, adding that the Turkish man had been caught as he tried to flee over the frontier.
Mandela still ‘serious but stable’, security tightened
PRETORIA (Reuters) – Former South African president and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela remained in a “serious but stable” condition in a Pretoria hospital on Tuesday after four days of treatment for a lung infection, the government said.
In Asia, dissidents worry that U.S. may share Prism data
SINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) – Dissident and opposition groups in Asia, including those supported by the United States, are voicing concern over reports that Washington may have monitored and collected their conversations and e-mails.
Feisty Swiss minister shakes up secretive banks
ZURICH (Reuters) – Switzerland’s Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, a lone woman in the male bastion of Swiss finance, is short of friends as she seeks to end the country’s reputation as a haven for tax cheats, but has a track record of getting her own way.
Germany has duty to boost domestic demand, says Merkel
BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed on Tuesday to pursue her two-pronged approach of budget consolidation and strengthening domestic demand if she is re-elected in September, adding that Germany had a duty to support the euro zone economy…
Italy’s two mavericks left licking wounds after local elections
ROME (Reuters) – Sweeping wins for the center left in Italy’s local elections have sounded alarms for Silvio Berlusconi and Beppe Grillo, the mavericks who emerged as the big winners from February’s deadlocked national vote.
