US lifts sanctions on ex-Syria PM - CBS News
(CBS/AP) – Syria's former prime minister received some material benefit after defecting last week – the US lifted sanctions on him, unfreezing financial assets under American jurisdiction. Riad Hijab had been one of 29 senior Syrian government … Report: Computers stolen from Steve Jobs' home - CNN International
(CNN) — More than $60000 worth of computers and personal items have been stolen from the Palo Alto, California, home of the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, according to news reports. Kariem McFarlin, 35, of Alameda was arrested and charged with … Veteran jockey Robby Albarado fined $500 in misdemeanour assault conviction
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Jockey Robby Albarado was fined $500 on Tuesday for a misdemeanour assault conviction stemming from a scuffle with his former girlfriend, but the Preakness-winning rider’s legal problems aren’t behind him yet.
N.Korea may complete reactor next year: think tank
North Korea may finish work by late 2013 on a light-water reactor that could be used to support its nuclear weapons program, a US think tank said Tuesday. Missing African judoka 'on holiday' - official
A judoka and three coaches from the Democratic Republic of Congo's Olympic delegation, listed as having gone missing after leaving the Athletes' Village at the London Games, missed their flight home – but the judoka says he is on holiday, an official source said Tuesday. E Guinea soldiers need better image: vice president
Equatorial Guinea's top defence official, the son of President Teodoro Obiang, toured military barracks Tuesday promising better living conditions in exchange for better behaviour. Bombs kill at least 46 in deadly Afghanistan day
Suicide attacks involving as many as 14 bombers struck an Afghan city Tuesday, and a motorcycle bomb exploded in a busy market in blasts that killed at least 46 people altogether-- the year's deadliest day for civilians in Afghanistan. German city to recognize Islamic holidays
Authorities in Hamburg have become the first in Germany to officially recognize Islamic holidays so Muslim employees and students can celebrate them at home.
Iraq attacks leave four dead
Shootings and bombings in Iraq on Tuesday killed four people, including an anti-corruption investigator, security and medical officials said. India July inflation near three-year low
India's inflation rate hit a near three-year low in July, data showed Tuesday, but analysts said the drop may not be enough to prompt the hawkish central bank to cut interest rates. Panicked residents flee Nigerian city, troops call for calm
Hundreds of residents of a northeastern Nigerian city were fleeing Tuesday after arrests by troops and rumours of new attacks by Islamist militants, prompting authorities to plead for calm. Egypt condemns 14 to death for 2011 Sinai attack
ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) – An Egyptian court sentenced 14 Islamist militants to death on Tuesday for killing policemen and soldiers during an attack on a police station in North Sinai last year, a court official said. The ruling may add to tension in the volatile region bordering Israel, where fighting between security forces and militants has intensified since August 5 when 16 border guards were killed in an attack blamed on Islamist groups. (Reporting by Yusri Mohamed; Writing by Tamim Elyan; Editing by Louise Ireland) Bomb blast kills three in Nigeria's Kaduna city
Three people were killed in a bomb blast Tuesday on a northern Nigerian road leading to a mosque where a cleric had condemned the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, officials said. Palestinians flock to Jerusalem for Muslim night of prayer
Palestinians poured into Jerusalem from the occupied West Bank on Tuesday for a night of prayer at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, in a rare opportunity for many of them to visit the Muslim holy site, the third-holiest in Islam. Gunmen kill eight in hail of bullets at Mexico strip bar
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) – Gunmen stormed a strip bar in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey late on Monday, killing eight men in a hail of bullets in an attack which bore the hallmarks of organized crime, state security and law enforcement officials said. Four victims died on site in the Matehuala bar, a well-known drinking and topless dancing venue in the city center, and four more died later in the hospital, officials said on Tuesday. Monterrey is Mexico’s most affluent city and was long been seen as a model of economic development in Latin America. …
Two Tibetans set themselves alight in China: group
Two ethnic Tibetan men set themselves on fire together in southwest China to protest Beijing's rule, causing clashes between residents and security forces, rights groups said on Tuesday. Kurdish rebels free Turkish lawmaker
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Kurdish militants on Tuesday freed Turkish opposition lawmaker Huseyin Aygun whose surprise abduction over the weekend in the southeast province of Tunceli caused outrage in the country and fears of an escalating campaign of kidnapping and violence. Aygun’s relatives said the politician, a member of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), parliament’s second-biggest, was now with military police after the rebels brought him through the mountains to within sight of a village, and left him to walk there himself. …
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