Hackers attack New Zealand government party websites to protest spy law
WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Hackers disabled several websites of New Zealand’s ruling party on Tuesday, protesting a planned law to widen the surveillance powers of the country’s spy agency but the action was criticized by Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom a…
China rules out Sino-Japanese summit: China Daily
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China has ruled out the possibility of a proposed summit meeting with Japan, the official China Daily reported on Tuesday, after Tokyo proposed the meeting in a bid to defuse a territorial row.
Abbas wants ‘not a single Israeli’ in future Palestinian state
CAIRO (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas laid out his vision on Monday for the final status of Israeli-Palestinian relations ahead of peace talks due to resume in Washington for the first time in nearly three years.
Gunmen kill eight Tunisian troops as political tensions grow
TUNIS (Reuters) – Gunmen killed at least eight Tunisian soldiers on Monday, staging the biggest attack on the security forces in decades as political tensions rose between supporters and opponents of the Islamist-led government.
Al Qaeda group kidnaps Italian priest in Syria: activists
AMMAN (Reuters) – Al Qaeda-linked fighters in a rebel-held eastern Syrian city on Monday abducted a prominent Italian Jesuit priest who championed the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, activists said.
Gunmen kill eight Tunisian troops as political tensions rise
TUNIS (Reuters) – Gunmen killed at least eight Tunisian soldiers on Monday, staging the biggest attack on the security forces in decades as political tensions rose between supporters and opponents of the Islamist-led government.
Berlusconi faces verdict that could endanger Italian government
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s supreme court convenes on Tuesday to rule whether Silvio Berlusconi should be jailed and banned from public office for tax fraud, a verdict that could endanger Italy’s shaky coalition government.
Spain mourns train crash victims in official Mass
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain (Reuters) – Mourners packed a memorial service on Monday for the 79 people who died in the country’s worst rail disaster in decades, as investigators prepared to analyze information from the train’s data recording device, …
Bombs kill 15 in Nigeria’s Kano: police source
KANO, Nigeria (Reuters) – Multiple bomb blasts in Nigeria’s biggest northern city of Kano killed 15 people on Monday, a senior policeman said, in an area previously targeted by militant Islamist group Boko Haram.
Kerry seeks ‘reasonable compromises’ in Israeli-Palestinian talks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called on Monday for Israel and the Palestinians to make “reasonable compromises” for peace as he prepared to preside over their first direct negotiations in nearly three years.
