Colombia’s Santos open to talks with FARC leader Timochenko
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on Tuesday he would consider meeting FARC rebel leader Timochenko to accelerate talks aimed at ending 50 years of conflict but warned the nation will continue at war if Colombians reject wh…
German Turks call for disbanding of security agency after murders
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German domestic intelligence agency (BfV) should be disbanded because of its racist mentality, Germany’s Turkish community said, a week after a probe found its negligence had enabled a neo-Nazi cell to commit nine racist murders….
Iran names new envoy to IAEA, extending makeover of nuclear team
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran has named a disarmament expert as its envoy to the U.N. nuclear watchdog, extending a reshuffle of top officials dealing with its disputed atomic program since new President Hassan Rouhani took office vowing to improve Iran’s for…
Russian police seize painting of Putin in women’s underwear
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – Police seized a painting of Russia’s president and prime minister in women’s underwear from a gallery in St Petersburg, saying the satirical display had broken unspecified laws.
Libya’s oil chaos deepens as armed group shuts pipeline
TRIPOLI/LONDON (Reuters) – Libya’s largest western oilfields closed when an armed group shut down the pipeline linking them to ports, its deputy oil minister said on Tuesday, reducing its oil output to a trickle.
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.
