SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- A Yemeni military plane crashed Tuesday into a neighborhood in the country’s capital, Sanaa, killing at least nine people and injuring 18, medical and security officials said.
Activists say Syrian missile strike kills 8
BEIRUT (AP) -- Anti-regime activists say a Syrian missile strike has leveled a stretch of buildings and killed at least eight people in the city of Aleppo. Minnesota congressman arrives in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) -- A U.S. congressman from Minnesota has arrived in Somalia for a rare visit by a United States politician.
Typhoid breaks out in rebel-held eastern Syria: WHO
GENEVA (Reuters) – Typhoid has broken out in an opposition-held region of Syria due to people drinking contaminated water from the Euphrates River, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. An estimated 2,500 people in northeastern Deir al-Zor province are infected with the contagious disease, which causes diarrhea and can be fatal, the United Nations agency said. "There is not enough fuel or electricity to run the pumps so people drink water from the Euphrates which is contaminated, probably with sewage," the WHO representative in Syria, Elisabeth Hoff, told Reuters by telephone. … Ford, Peugeot, Toyota lead Europe auto sales to new low
PARIS (Reuters) – Ford , PSA Peugeot Citroen and Toyota led European car sales to a new low in January, kicking off 2013 with an 8.5 percent decl ine, the Association of European Automakers said on Tuesday. Registrations fell to 918,280 new cars, the Brussels-based industry body said in a statement, the slowest January since its records began in 1990, as austerity measures and unemployment hit consumer spending. Ford, which is cutting back its European production capacity with three plant closures to stem regional losses, recorded a 26 percent sales plunge to 61,544 cars. … Nestle finds horse meat in beef pasta meals
Nestle SA has withdrawn beef pasta meals from sale in Italy and Spain after tests found horse DNA.
Guinean troops take Ivory Coast village: Official
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) -- An Ivory Coast military spokesman says that Guinean soldiers have occupied a border village in western Ivorian territory.
Palestinian prisoners announce solidarity strike
JERUSALEM (AP) -- A Palestinian group says hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli jails are refusing food for one day in solidarity with four other inmates who are on hunger strike. Multimillion-dollar diamond heist in Brussels
BRUSSELS (AP) -- Eight armed and masked men made a hole in a security fence at Brussels’ international airport, drove onto the tarmac and snatched millions of dollars’ worth of diamonds from the hold of a Swiss-bound plane without firing a shot, authorities said Tuesday.
Women, girls increasingly victims in Afghan war, U.N. says
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan women and girls are increasingly victims of violence with a 20 percent increase last year in the number killed or injured even though the number of civilian casualt ies fell for the first time in years, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Reinforcing fears about a rise in insecurity as foreign combat troops prepare to leave by next year, the United Nations said the country faced a growing threat from the return of armed groups. … Armenian president promises security after election victory
YEREVAN (Reuters) – Armenian President Serz h Sarksyan promised on Tuesday to make the country secure and stable after cruising to victory in an election which international vote monitors said lacked real competition. But Sarksyan faces a challenge in his second five-year term to prevent tensions increasing with Azerbaijan over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh that could lead to a new war in the South Caucasus, where pipelines carry Caspian oil and gas to Europe. Preliminary results showed Sarksyan won 58.6 percent of the votes cast in Monday's election, enough to avoid a second-round run-off. … Author Hilary Mantel attacks "plastic" princess Kate
LONDON (Reuters) – One of Britain's most celebrated authors has launched a withering attack on the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, branding her a "shop-window mannequin" with a plastic smile whose only role in life is to breed. In an unusually scathing public attack on a royal, Hilary Mantel said the princess had no personality, a "perfect plastic smile" and appears to have been designed by a committee. The writer's comments about the pregnant 31-year-old wife of Prince William sharply divided public opinion. … Official: Military plane crashes in Yemeni capital during training, several killed, injured
SANAA, Yemen – A Yemeni official says a military plane on a training exercise crashed into a neighbourhood in the country’s capital, Sanaa, killing and injuring scores of people.
Official: Military training plane crashes in Yemen
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- A Yemeni official says a military plane on a training exercise crashed into a neighborhood in the country’s capital, Sanaa, killing and injuring scores of people.
UK's Lloyds fined $6.7 million for mis-sold insurance
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain's financial regulator on Tuesday fined Lloyds Banking Group 4.3 million pounds ($6.7 million) for failing to handle complaints relating to insurance sold on loans and mortgages p roperly. The Financial Services Authority said failings in the bank's systems and controls resulted in up to 140,000 customers experiencing delays in receiving compensation for being mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI). ($1 = 0.6460 British pounds) (Reporting by Matt Scuffham; editing by Rhys Jones) Yemeni warplane crashes in Sanaa, six dead: sources
SANAA (Reuters) – A Yemeni fighter jet crashed in the centre of the capital Sanaa on Tuesday, killing at least six people, medical sources said. The ministry said in a text message that the warplane had been on a training flight when it came down in a western residential district. Pictures of the crash on social media sites showed one body near burning wreckage of the aircraft. Several cars were on fire and debris littered the street. A security official said without elaborating that the pilot had ejected from the plane. A military official said the aircraft was a Russian SU-22. …
Tax moves to forefront of Italy election campaign
ROME (Reuters) – As Italy's parliamentary elections approach, the parties ba ttling to win over undecided voters are focusing increasingly on tax, the issue that polls show matters most to an electorate struggling after more than a year of austerity. Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has singled out the hated IMU housing tax as the centrepiece of his campaign, promising not only to abolish it but to refund last year's payments in cash at post office counters. … Search continues for missing halibut fishermen as families wait through night
HALIFAX – An overnight search by coast guard vessels and several aircraft has produced no sign of the crew of a fishing boat that went missing in hurricane-force winds.
US security firm alleges massive Chinese hacking
BEIJING (AP) -- Cyberattacks that stole information from 141 targets in the U.S. and other countries have been traced to a Chinese military unit in a drab office building in the outskirts of Shanghai, a U.S. security firm alleged Tuesday. China dismissed the report as “groundless.”
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