And now some fresh pickings from the wartime grapevine: FOX Fans: Missed the Grapevine? Watch it in the Screening Room! Protocol ProblemsNewsweek magazine, after examining documents found in Baghdad and Basrah, compares the Iraqi Intelligence Service to the Gestapo in Nazi Germany, except it says the Nazis represented “the banality …
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HAVANA – Cuba and the United States will debate human rights at a meeting in Washington on Tuesday in another sign of the thaw between the countries trying to re-establish normal diplomatic relations after a 50-year freeze. The discussions seem unlikely to lead to short-term changes in the way either …
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ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s state-run news agency says Turkey has delivered two plane-loads of military aid to Iraq. The Anadolu Agency says two C-130 military cargo planes carrying the equipment landed at an air base near Baghdad on Tuesday. It did not give any detail on the supplies. The delivery …
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LIMA, Peru – Indigenous communities that sued Occidental Petroleum over contamination in Peru’s northern Amazon have reached an out-of-court settlement in which the California-based oil company will pay them an undisclosed sum. The amount is confidential, under a settlement that was reached in 2013 in Los Angeles federal court but …
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BANGKOK – Thailand’s national police chief says the suspects in a weekend grenade attack at a Bangkok courthouse are connected to those behind a bombing at an upscale shopping mall in the capital. Saturday’s attack at the Criminal Court, in which no one was hurt, came five weeks after small …
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UNITED NATIONS – Satellite images of Syria show that 83 percent of the country’s lights have gone out over four years of devastating conflict that has left cities shattered and forced millions of people to flee their homes. A global coalition of human rights and humanitarian groups released the analysis …
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BEIRUT – Syrian government warplanes pounded a suburb of Damascus on Sunday, killing at least 18 people and scattering shattered concrete blocks and mangled cars in the streets, activists said. The Local Coordination Committees activist collective and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday’s air raids targeted the …
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ISTANBUL – A 21-year-old British woman suspected of trying to travel to Islamic State group territory in Syria has been detained in Turkey, government officials said Tuesday. The woman, identified as J.N.H., was detained at a bus terminal in Ankara late Monday and is being held pending deportation hearings. One …
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DAKAR, Senegal – Rebels in eastern Congo have killed at least four civilians as they fled a Congolese army operation, a representative of civil society groups said Thursday. Fighters from the Allied Defense Forces-NALU attacked three villages in region around the town of Beni on Wednesday, according to Omar Kavota, …
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CANBERRA, Australia – Australia’s competition watchdog has foreshadowed plans to block a tie up between Qantas Airways and China Eastern Airlines because it could increase fares on the popular Sydney-Shanghai route. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission issued a draft decision Tuesday proposing to deny authorization for Qantas and China …
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