France to back Palestinian U.N. status

PARIS (Reuters) - France said on Tuesday it would vote in favour of Palestinian non-member status at the United Nations, boosting Palestinian efforts to secure greater international recognition. Frustrated that their bid for full U.N. membership last...

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Samples taken from Arafat corpse for poison tests

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Forensic experts took samples from Yasser Arafat's uncovered corpse in the West Bank on Tuesday, trying to determine if he was murdered by Israeli agents using the hard-to-trace radioactive poison, Polonium. Palestinians...

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Mursi opponents clash with police in Cairo

CAIRO (Reuters) - Opponents of President Mohamed Mursi clashed with Cairo police on Tuesday as thousands of protesters stepped up pressure on the Islamist to scrap a decree they say threatens Egypt with a new era of autocracy. Police fired tear gas...

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Syria launches air strikes as combat rages in Damascus

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian war planes attacked towns in the country's north and east and killed at least five civilians in a strike on an olive oil press as fighting raged in the capital Damascus on Tuesday, opposition activists said. Rebels battled...

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Gazans say "Thank you Iran" after Israel conflagration

GAZA (Reuters) - Gazans offered very public thanks to Iran on Tuesday for helping them in this month's fight against Israel, when Iranian-made missiles were fired out of the Palestinian enclave towards Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. "Thank you Iran", said...

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Afghan president seeks to allay fears of post-2014 chaos

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai projected a rosier future for his country on Tuesday and sought to quell "propaganda" of a possible descent into chaos once most international troops withdraw by the end of 2014. In a conference convened...

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Bangladesh mourns, calls factory fire "act of sabotage"

DHAKA/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bangladesh said a fire that killed 111 textile workers was sabotage, as protesters took to the streets for a second day on Tuesday and garment factories across the world's second-biggest clothes exporter stopped work to mourn....

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Saudi crown prince says King Abdullah "well and in good health"

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Saudi Crown Prince Salman said on Tuesday that King Abdullah was "well and in good health", more than 10 days after the monarch underwent back surgery, a message likely to reassure many states keen on the stability of...

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Car bombs kill 14 Shi'ite Muslims in Iraqi capital

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three car bombings killed 14 Shi'ite Muslims during mourning processions in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Tuesday, police and hospital sources said. Dozens more were injured in the explosions. They struck during the holy month of...

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Greece, markets satisfied by EU-IMF Greek debt deal

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The Greek government and financial markets were cheered on Tuesday by an agreement between euro zone finance ministers and the International Monetary Fund to reduce Greece's debt, paving the way for the release of urgently needed...

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Attacker stabs guard at U.S. embassy

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - A man apparently suffering from mental health problems stabbed a security guard at the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv on Tuesday and was apprehended, police said. "A Mazda car stopped next to the U.S. embassy and a man got out carrying...

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Analysis: Hollande's softly-softly plan needs tough execution

PARIS (Reuters) - After six months keeping the world guessing about whether he had a vision for fixing France's sickly economy, President Francois Hollande has unveiled a battle plan "à la française" to ease companies' labor costs and trim public spending....

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Assad troops fight to oust rebels from Damascus

AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian government troops backed by tanks battled to oust rebel forces from an opposition stronghold in a Damascus suburb on Tuesday in the heaviest fighting in the capital for months. In action in the country's north, rebel fighters...

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Poland arrests bomb plotter linked to Norway's Breivik

WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish authorities have arrested a radical nationalist who planned to blow up parliament and had links to the right-wing extremist who murdered dozens of people in Norway last year, they said on Tuesday. The suspected plot - to detonate...

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Colombia, FARC peace talks off to good start: rebel

HAVANA (Reuters) - Peace negotiations between Colombia and Marxist guerrillas are off to a good start in Cuba, a rebel negotiator said on Tuesday, after delays and rocky moments in the weeks before talks began to end Latin America's longest-running insurgency....

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Congo rebels seize eastern city as U.N. forces look on

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Rebels widely believed to be backed by Rwanda seized Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday, parading past U.N. peacekeepers who gave up the battle for the frontier city of one million people....

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French combat troops withdraw from Afghan war

KABUL (Reuters) - France withdrew its combat troops from Afghanistan on Tuesday, marking the end of its battlefield role in the NATO-led war after a presence of more than 10 years. Four hundred French troops returned to the Afghan capital after four...

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Croatia jails ex-PM Sanader for 10 years over graft

ZAGREB (Reuters) - Former Croatian prime minister Ivo Sanader was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Tuesday for taking bribes from two foreign companies, becoming the highest state official to be convicted of corruption in the future European Union...

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Hamas says Gaza truce agreed, Israel says no deal yet

GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Hamas official said on Tuesday Egypt had brokered a Gaza ceasefire deal that would go into effect within hours, but a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said "we're not there yet". "An agreement for...

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Argentina's Fernandez faces her first general strike

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Opposition trade unions protesting Argentina's economic policies brought public transportation and grains exports to a halt on Tuesday in the first general strike since President Cristina Fernandez took office five years ago....

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New Syrian opposition chief seeks recognition, arms

CAIRO (Reuters) - The leader of Syria's new opposition coalition urged European states on Tuesday to recognize it as the legitimate government, enabling it to buy the weapons it needs to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. Britain and France appeared...

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Post-coup Bissau leader tries to restore EU ties

BISSAU (Reuters) - Guinea-Bissau's caretaker President Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo may have one of the world's toughest jobs - leading a country where cocaine smuggling is out of control, the economy is in freefall and violence is the top means to political...

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UK submariner tried to pass secrets to Russia -court

LONDON (Reuters) - A British Royal Navy submariner admitted in court on Tuesday that he met two men he thought were Russian agents to pass on military secrets, including the sailing dates of British nuclear submarines. Petty officer Edward Devenney,...

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Lawyers to wrap up Afghan rampage hearing for U.S. soldier

(Reuters) - A preliminary hearing for Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers in a massacre this year, was to enter its final stage on Tuesday with lawyers' closing statements. Army prosecutors and defense attorneys...

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