U.N. inspectors arrive at Beirut international airport – witness
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The team of United Nations inspectors that was investigating the alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria arrived at Beirut International Airport on Saturday, a Reuters witness said.
U.N. chemical weapons inspectors arrive in Lebanon: witness
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The United Nations team tasked with investigating alleged chemical weapons strikes in Syria arrived in Lebanon on Saturday, a Reuters witness said.
Mexico leftist vows to block reforms, warns oil firms
CATEMACO, Mexico (Reuters) – Fiery Mexican leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has vowed to stop the government’s energy and tax reforms and hopes to lead even bigger protests than when he brought central Mexico City to a standstill after narrowly losi…
Sixth U.S. ship now in eastern Mediterranean ‘as precaution’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A sixth U.S. warship is now operating in the eastern Mediterranean, near five U.S. destroyers armed with cruise missiles that could soon be directed against Syria as part of a “limited, precise” strike, defense officials said lat…
U.N. investigators to exit Syria, chemical probe may take weeks
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A team of U.N. experts finished gathering evidence of a suspected chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds of people in suburbs near Damascus last week, the United Nations announced on Friday, though envoys said analyzing…
In shadow of Iraq, U.S. has ‘high confidence’ Syria carried out chemical attack
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. intelligence agencies publicly disclosed on Friday some of the information that led to a “high-confidence” assessment that the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad carried out a chemical weapons attack on neighborh…
U.S. says world cannot let Assad get away with chemical attack
WASHINGTON/PARIS (Reuters) – The United States made clear on Friday that it would punish Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for the “brutal and flagrant” chemical weapons attack that it says killed more than 1,400 people in Damascus last week.
Suriname president’s son arrested on U.S. drug smuggling charges
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – A son of Suriname’s president has been arrested in Panama and sent to New York to face charges of smuggling cocaine into the United States, U.S. authorities said on Friday.
U.N. analysis of Syria samples could take up to two weeks: envoy
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the five permanent Security Council members that it may be two weeks before for final results are ready of an analysis of samples experts collected at the site of a chemical weapons att…
Mexico leftist vows to block reforms, warns oil firms
CATEMACO, Mexico (Reuters) – Fiery Mexican leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has vowed to stop the government’s energy and tax reforms and hopes to lead even bigger protests than when he brought central Mexico City to a standstill after narrowly losi…
