Indian officials have launched an investigation into Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan over reports he knows he and his wife are having a baby boy, in a country where pre-natal sex tests are illegal. More »Bollywood's Shah Rukh Khan Faces Baby Inquiry
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto must appear in person for certain sessions of his trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, but can otherwise carry out his official duties, the court said on Tuesday. Ruto and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, elected on a joint ticket in March, face charges of orchestrating violence after the previous election five years ago, in which 1,200 people were killed. Both deny the charges. ... More »Hague court says Kenyan vice president must attend parts of trial
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The death toll from two apparently coordinated suicide bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital rose to 29, medics said on Tuesday. The first bomber detonated his charge at a checkpoint 100 metres (yards) from a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in the al-Qahira district of northern Baghdad. Minutes later a second person blew himself up inside the building. (Reporting by Kareem Raheem; Writing by Isabel Coles; Editing by Janet Lawrence) More »Death toll from twin suicide bombs in Baghdad rises to 29 - medics
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A woman who says she is the unrecognized daughter of Belgian King Albert II has summoned the monarch and two of his children to appear in a Brussels court in her bid to prove he is her father, her lawyer said on Tuesday. Delphine Boel, a 45-year-old artist, has repeatedly stated that she is the daughter of the king and has used this as a theme in some of her work. First reports about Boel's claims appeared in the Belgian media in the late 1990s. The king has never made any official statement on the subject. ... More »Belgian who says she is king's daughter asks him to testify
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Syrian opposition must not be allowed to set conditions for attending a peace conference, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in comments published on Tuesday. Despite pressure on President Vladimir Putin at a G8 summit to tone down Russian support for Bashar al-Assad, Lavrov signaled there was no change in Moscow's view that the Syrian leader's exit cannot be a precondition for the peace talks. ... More »Assad foes cannot set conditions for Syria talks: Russia
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (Reuters) - An international peace conference aimed at ending the conflict in Syria is unlikely to take place before August after G8 leaders clashed with Russia over the nature of a transitional government, a source familiar with the talks said on Tuesday. "You're close to a seven to one position on Syria and clearly (Vladimir) Putin doesn't hold back with his views," the source said, saying a peace conference in Geneva was unlikely to take place in July. (Reporting By Andrew Osborn; Editing by Guy Faulconbridge) More »Syria peace conference unlikely to be before August after G8 clash
Putin faces isolation over Syria as G8 ratchets up pressure ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin faced growing isolation on the second day of a G8 summit on Tuesday as world leaders lined up to pressure him into toning down his support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Syria was set to dominate the last day of the meeting in a secluded, heavily guarded golf resort in Northern Ireland, with Putin standing firm on his position that forcing out Assad would be disastrous for Syria and the region. ... More »CA-NEWS Summary
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Vandals daubed "Arabs out" graffiti and punctured tires in an Arab village near Jerusalem on Tuesday, targeting a community widely seen in Israel as a showcase for Jewish-Arab coexistence. Unlike similar attacks that have damaged Arab mosques, homes, vehicles and olive groves, the vandalism took place in an Arab village in Israel popular with Jewish visitors, rather than in a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank. ... More »Arab village in Israel targeted in racial attack
Turkish police detained dozens of people at their homes and raided two media offices on Tuesday in a coordinated operation across the country to clamp down on nearly three weeks of mass anti-government unrest, lawyers and officials said. More »Turkey police arrest over 100 in swoop on protesters
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Sixteen Cambodian garment workers and union representatives have been charged with inciting violence and damaging property during a strike for higher pay at a factory making clothes for U.S. sportswear company Nike, a lawyer said on Tuesday. Low-cost labor has attracted Western brands to Cambodia and garments now account for around 75 percent of exports from the Southeast Asian country, but strikes over pay and working conditions have become common. ... More »Cambodian garment workers charged over strike violence
A volcano in Mexico has been spewing clouds of ash high into the sky. More »Mexico: Volcano Popocatepetl Spews Out Ash
Twin suicide bombs on a Shiite Muslim religious hall in north Baghdad on Tuesday killed 31 people and wounded 57 others, officials said, updating an earlier toll. More »Toll in Baghdad suicide bombs up to 31 dead: officials
By Abhishek Madhukar DHARAMSALA (Reuters) - Early monsoon rains have swollen the Ganges, India's longest river, swept away houses, killed at least 60 people and left tens of thousands stranded, officials said on Tuesday. The rains are at least twice as heavy as usual in northwest and central India as the June-September monsoon spreads north, covering the whole country a month faster than normal. The National Disaster Management Authority said a response force of 12 teams of 45 people each had been in action since Sunday, in addition to the army and border police. ... More »India on 'war footing' as monsoon floods kill scores
By Kevin Lim SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's worst air pollution in 16 years sparked diplomatic tension on Tuesday, as the city-state urged Indonesia to provide data on company names and concession maps to enable it to act against plantation firms that allow slash-and-burn farming. Singapore's environment minister made the request to his Indonesian counterpart by telephone as air pollution on the island hit unhealthy levels for a second straight day, with some of the worst readings since a 1997 regional haze crisis. ... More »Singapore pressures Indonesia to identify firms behind haze
An ancient city lost for 1,200 years has been discovered in the Cambodian jungle by archaeologists using laser scanning technology. More »Cambodia: Lost Ancient City Found In Jungle
A man charged with murdering four women whose first and last names began with the same letter has told a jury that he is not a "monster". More »'Double Initial' Murders Suspect 'No Monster'
Afghan armed forces are taking back responsibility for control of the country for the first time in nearly 12 years. More »Afghanistan: Armed Forces Take Back Control
A man stood still in Istanbul's Taksim Square: silent, staring straight ahead, he had not moved for hours. More »Turkey's 'Standing Man': a new form of protest
Major protests have been held in cities across Brazil over rising bus fares and the cost of staging the 2014 football World Cup - with Brazilian media putting the number of demonstrators as high as 230,000. More »Brazil Protests: Clashes Over World Cup Costs
President Barack Obama has defended secret US spying programmes and rejected comparisons with the policies of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. More »Spying: Obama Defends 'Transparent' Operations
By Andrew Osborn and Amena Bakr ENISKILLEN, Northern Ireland/DUBAI (Reuters) - Rebels fought to halt an advance by President Bashar al-Assad's forces into northern Syria on Monday while U.S. President Barack Obama faced a showdown with Russia's Vladimir Putin over Obama's decision last week to arm the insurgents. New evidence emerged of escalating foreign support for the rebels, with a Gulf source telling Reuters that Saudi Arabia had equipped fighters for the first time with shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, their most urgent request. ... More »Putin, Obama face off over Syria; rebels get Saudi missiles
Afghanistan will send representatives to Qatar soon to discuss peace with the Taliban, President Hamid Karzai said on Tuesday, in a step towards reaching a brokered ceasefire in the 12-year-old war. "Afghanistan's High Peace Council will travel to Qatar to discuss peace talks with the Taliban," Karzai said in Kabul, referring to the council he formed in late 2010 to pursue talks with the insurgents. ... More »Afghanistan to hold formal talks with Taliban in Qatar - Karzai
(Reuters) - Yahoo Inc said U.S. law enforcement agencies made between 12,000 and 13,000 requests for data in the last six months, the latest in a series of disclosures by technology companies since intelligence leaks showed the extent of government data gathering efforts. The company said the requests were made between December 1, 2012 and May 31 this year. "The most common of these requests concerned fraud, homicides, kidnappings, and other criminal investigations," Yahoo said in a statement posted on its Tumblr page. (http://yahoo.tumblr.com/) Others were made under the U.S. ... More »Yahoo says it had as many as 13,000 U.S. data requests
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel has frozen nearly all housing starts in settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, Housing Minister Uri Ariel said on Tuesday, in an apparent bid to help U.S. efforts to revive peace talks with the Palestinians. The step, confirmed several weeks ago by the Israel's anti-settlement Peace Now movement, has had no impact on construction already under way in settlements - projects that have raised Palestinian concern and drawn international condemnation. Settlement construction on land the Palestinians want for a state was the main reason for the breakdown of ... More »Israel has frozen new building in settlements: minister
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian prosecutors on Tuesday charged Laszlo Csatary, 98, with war crimes committed during World War Two, saying he helped deport Jews to Auschwitz. "He is charged with the unlawful execution and torturing of people thus committing war crimes partly as a culprit, partly as an accomplice," Bettina Bagoly, a spokeswoman for the Budapest Chief Prosecutor's Office said. She said Csatary's case would go to trial within three months. Nazi-hunters from the Simon Wiesenthal Center had named Csatary their most wanted war crimes suspect last year. ... More »Hungarian man, 98, charged with WW2 crimes - prosecutors