Tweet MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Support for Mexican presidential hopeful Josefina Vazquez Mota, candidate of the ruling National Action Party (PAN), has fallen to its lowest level since the campaign began at the end of March, a poll showed on Tuesday. View post: Support for Mexico ruling party candidate hits new low: poll  Read More →

Tweet JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli advocacy group won a $323 million judgment in a U.S. court against Iran and Syria for supporting Palestinian militants that killed an American teenager and ten others in a 2006 bombing, the group’s director said Tuesday…. See the original post: Israeli group wins terror suit against Syria, Iran  Read More →

Tweet VIENNA (AP) — U.N. nuclear negotiators seeking to probe Tehran’s nuclear program for signs of secret work on atomic-weapons technology spoke of a good exchange of views Tuesday after talks with Iranian officials, who described the meeting as having made progress…. Read the original here: Iran talks to continue, both sides... 

Tweet TIMBUKTU (Reuters) – The Malian Islamist rebel group Ansar Dine said on Tuesday it would allow an aid convoy it had blocked outside the northern city of Timbuktu to deliver its food and medical supplies on Wednesday, after reaching a deal with local authorities. More here: Mali Islamists to let first aid convoy enter Timbuktu  Read More →

Tweet VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Legion of Christ religious order was hit by the second scandal in a week with the admission Tuesday that its most well-known priest, a prominent author, lecturer and television personality, had fathered a child…. Here is the original post: Prominent Legion priest admits he fathered child  Read More →

Tweet TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — At the gallows, the condemned prisoner Tuesday repeated the allegations Iran lodged against him: That he was trained by Israel’s spy agency to carry out one of the first attack on Iranian scientists in a suspected shadow war against Tehran’s nuclear ambitions…. Read the original post: Iran hangs... 

Tweet NAIROBI (Reuters) – European helicopter gunships attacked a pirate base on the Somali coast on Tuesday, destroying five speedboats, in the first such airborne strike on land by the anti-piracy force. Read the original: EU helicopters strike Somali pirate base on land  Read More →

Tweet TACHUIEN, South Sudan (AP) — A trench dug across a red dirt road marks part of the shifting border this week between Sudan and South Sudan, old enemies whose forces have clashed in recent weeks. Original post: Sudans: Trench marks new border as rains approach  Read More →

Tweet PARIS (AP) — Socialist Francois Hollande took over as France’s president Tuesday and jetted off to Berlin hours later for talks on Europe’s debt crisis – only to have his plane struck by lightning. No one was hurt…. Here is the original post: Lightning hits French president’s plane, none hurt  Read More →

Tweet KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A notorious ex-warlord who became a general in the Congolese army despite international war crimes charges is now being blamed for fomenting more unrest in Congo’s east and faces new charges of crimes against humanity…. Continue reading here: Congolese military hunts evasive ex-warlord  Read More →