PATHEIN, Myanmar (AP) — Crowds of supporters greeted Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi with thunderous applause as she embarked Tuesday on her first campaign trip since becoming an official candidate for April elections….

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Suu Kyi hits the campaign trail in Myanmar

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Iranian buyers have defaulted on payment for about 200,000 tonnes of rice from their top supplier India, exporters and rice millers said on Tuesday, as trade between the two countries comes under mounting pressure from a new wave of Western sanctions against Tehran.

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Exclusive: Iran defaults on rice payments to India

AMMAN (Reuters) – Heavy bombardment of the Syrian city of Homs resumed on Tuesday after at least 95 civilians were killed on Monday in an offensive to put down a popular revolt against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule, activists and residents said.

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Bombardment of Syria’s Homs city resumes: activists

BEIJING (AP) — In 1985, Xi Jinping led a delegation to Muscatine, Iowa, to study advanced hog-raising techniques. He comes back next week, preparing to lead the world’s most populous nation….

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US trip of China’s next leader: from Obama to Iowa

BEIJING (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is visiting China to discuss oil sales and other economic ties following U.S. President Barack Obama’s rejection of a pipeline carrying Canadian oil across the continental United States….

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Canada’s Harper in China visit focused on energy

SAO PAULO (AP) — Soldiers clashed with supporters of striking police in Brazil’s third-largest city on Monday, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at the feet of people trying to join officers occupying the Bahia state legislature building….

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Brazil: Standoff between striking police, soldiers

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro painted a bleak picture of the future, saying the world was in its worst situation ever as Cuban television aired on Monday part of a six-hour event last week touting his newest memoir.

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Fidel Castro warns of bleak future, touts memoir

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Rescuers digging for survivors among dozens of people buried by earthquake-triggered landslides on a central Philippine island have found only bodies. The death toll climbed to 15 on Tuesday, and at least 73 people were still missing….

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Death toll in 6.9 Philippines quake rises to 15

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Mainland Chinese who have a second child in Hong Kong will be fined for breaching China’s one-child policy, Chinese media quoted a family planning official as saying, as mainland Chinese women flock to the former British colony to give birth.

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China fines parents of HK-born second child: report

BEIJING (AP) — The body of a Chinese worker who went missing during a rebel attack on a work site in Sudan has been found, state media reported Tuesday….

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China: Body of missing worker recovered in Sudan