Indian police round up all five suspects in Mumbai rape case
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian police have arrested all five suspects in connection with the gang-rape of a photo journalist in Mumbai last week, a senior official said on Sunday, in a case that has revived uncomfortable questions about women’s safety.
U.N. says experts to visit Syria poison gas site from Monday
(Reuters) – U.N. chemical weapons experts will visit the site of an alleged poison gas attack in Syria to conduct investigations beginning on Monday, the United Nations said.
U.S. has ‘little doubt’ chemical arms used in Syria: senior official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States now has little doubt the Syrian government used chemical weapons against civilians last week, and President Barack Obama is studying how to respond, a senior official in the U.S. administration said on Sunday.
Syria says granted access to U.N. to chemical weapons site
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria has agreed to allow U.N. inspectors access to sites in suburbs of Damascus where alleged chemical attacks occurred last week, the Syria Foreign Ministry said in a statement broadcast on state television.
South Sudan’s Kiir puts generals under investigation for abuses
JUBA (Reuters) – Several South Sudanese army generals have been put under investigation for alleged human rights abuses in the east of the country where the army is fighting a rebellion, President Salva Kiir said on Sunday.
Zimbabwe’s Mugabe threatens U.S., UK firms over Western sanctions
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe threatened on Sunday to retaliate “tit for tat” against companies from Britain and the United States if these Western powers persisted in pressuring his government with sanctions and what he called “h…
Insight: Syria’s opposition considers national rebel army, Islamists angered
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s Western-backed political opposition plans to create the nucleus of a national army to bring order to the disparate rebel forces battling President Bashar al-Assad and counter the strength of al Qaeda-linked rebel brigades.
Large arms shipment reaches Syrian rebels: opposition
AMMAN (Reuters) – Gulf-based supporters have sent a 400-ton shipment of arms to Syria’s outgunned rebels, one of the biggest to reach them in their two-year-old uprising, opposition sources said on Sunday.
Egypt arrests suspected Islamist militants
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian authorities arrested an Islamist militant on Sunday, saying he was close to the brother of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri and had supplied arms to supporters of ousted President Mohamed Mursi, according to security sources….
Syria’s Nusra threatens to rocket Alawites over alleged chemical attack
DUBAI (Reuters) – An al Qaeda-affiliated rebel commander in Syria has pledged to target communities of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority with rockets in revenge for an alleged chemical attack near Damascus, according to an audio recor…
