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| French parliament votes for recognition of Palestinian state | |  By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) - French lawmakers on Tuesday urged their government to recognise Palestine, a symbolic move that will not immediately affect France's diplomatic stance but demonstrates growing European impatience with a stalled peace process. While most developing countries recognise Palestine as a state, most Western European countries do not, supporting the Israeli and U.S. position that an independent Palestinian state should emerge from negotiations with Israel. European countries have grown frustrated with Israel, which since the collapse of the latest U.S. ...
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| Lebanon detains wife of Islamic State leader | |  By Laila Bassam and Sylvia Westall BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Lebanese army detained a wife and daughter of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as they crossed from Syria nine days ago, security officials said on Tuesday, in a move seen as likely to put pressure on the Islamist chief. The woman was identified as Saja al-Dulaimi, an Iraqi, by a Lebanese security official and a senior political source. The Lebanese newspaper As-Safir reported she had been detained in coordination with "foreign intelligence". ...
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| Steve Jobs emails featured in Apple iPod antitrust trial | |  By Dan Levine OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - The late Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc, led the company to violate antitrust laws by restricting music purchases for iPod users to Apple's iTunes digital store and not rival services as well, an attorney for consumers suing Apple said in court. Opening statements began on Tuesday in an Oakland, California, federal court in the long-running class action, brought by a group of individuals and businesses who purchased iPods between 2006 and 2009. ...
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| Netanyahu seeks early election, fires top ministers | |  By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sacked his finance and justice ministers on Tuesday, signaling the break up of his bickering coalition and opening the way for early national elections in Israel. Netanyahu's government, which only took office last year, has been unraveling over an array of issues, including the 2015 budget and a Jewish nation-state bill that critics say discriminates against Arab citizens. ...
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| Kenyan president changes security officials after al Shabaab kill 36 | |  By Edmund Blair and Edith Honan NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somali al Shabaab Islamist militants killed 36 non-Muslim workers at a quarry in northeast Kenya on Tuesday, prompting the president to sweep out his top security officials in order to tackle a relentless wave of violence. Kenyans have grown increasingly critical of President Uhuru Kenyatta for failing to do more to defend the east African nation from the incessant militant attacks, which have killed well over 200 people since 2013. ...
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| Iran hackers targeted airlines, energy firms - report | | | By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - Iranian hackers have infiltrated some of the world's top energy, transport and infrastructure companies over the past two years in a campaign that could allow them to eventually cause physical damage, according to U.S. cyber security firm Cylance. Aerospace firms, airports and airlines, universities, energy firms, hospitals, and telecommunications operators based in the United States, Israel, China, Saudi Arabia, India, Germany, France, England have been hit by the campaign, the research firm said, without naming individual companies. ... |
| Pope, world religious leaders, pledge to fight modern slavery | |  VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis and Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist and Christian leaders pledged on Tuesday to use their religions to help stamp out modern slavery and human trafficking by 2020. Francis was lead signatory of a declaration also signed by among others the head of the Anglican Communion, two rabbis, a Hindu from India, a Vietnamese Buddhist, an Egyptian imam and an Iraqi ayatollah. It called human trafficking, forced labour and prostitution and organ trafficking "a crime against humanity". ...
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| Rise of Turkish Islamic schooling upsets secular parents | |  By Dasha Afanasieva and Can Sezer ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey has seen a sharp rise in religious schooling under reforms that President Tayyip Erdogan casts as a defence against moral decay, but which opponents see as an unwanted drive to shape a more Islamic nation. Almost a million students are enrolled in "imam hatip" schools this year, up from just 65,000 in 2002 when Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party first came to power, he told the opening of one of the schools in Ankara last month. ...
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| In Zimbabwe, the route to power is called Mugabe | |  By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) - Ninety-year-old Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is - quite literally - paving the way for his wife's ascent to power. In another sign of the First Lady's growing clout, Harare residents awoke on Tuesday to a new street, Dr Grace Mugabe Way, leading to the conference centre where Africa's oldest leader may this week anoint his chosen political successor. ...
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| Kenyan court sentences U.S. man to 50 years for child pornography | | | NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Kenyan court on Tuesday sentenced a 59-year-old U.S. man to 50 years in jail for circulating pornographic images of children on the Internet. Terry Ray Krieger, who initially pleaded not guilty but then changed his plea to guilty, was convicted by Nairobi's senior principal magistrate Joseph Karanja. Krieger had been charged with circulating obscene depictions of children on social media sites between May 2013 and October 2014. Karanja said Krieger had faced similar charges in Michigan in the United States in the past. He did not give further details about that case. ... |
| Egypt's public prosecutor appeals Mubarak verdict, cites flaws | |  CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's public prosecutor ordered an appeal on Tuesday against a court decision to drop charges against former president Hosni Mubarak, his interior minister and six aides over the killing of protesters in a 2011 uprising. Mubarak, now 86, was sentenced to life in prison in 2012 for conspiring to murder 239 demonstrators during an 18-day revolt that ended his 30-year rule, but an appeals court ordered a retrial. On Saturday, the court dropped its case against Mubarak, igniting protests in Cairo in which two people were killed. ...
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