CA-NEWS Summary

Bomb in Damascus kills 13 day after attack on prime minister

BEIRUT (Reuters) - A bomb killed 13 people in central Damascus on Tuesday, state television said, a day after Prime Minister Wael al-Halki survived an attack on his convoy in the Syrian capital. State-run Suriya television said 70 people were wounded, several critically.

New Italy PM Letta wins final confidence vote

ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta won a final parliamentary confidence vote in his new coalition government on Tuesday, bringing to an end the prolonged political crisis since February's inconclusive election. With support from the main parties on the right and left and a small centrist bloc, the Senate confidence motion passed easily by 233 to 59. Letta won a similar vote in the lower house of parliament on Monday.

Anger builds as Bangladesh gives up hope of more survivors

DHAKA (Reuters) - Rescue officials in Bangladesh said on Tuesday they had given up hope of finding more survivors from a garment factory complex that collapsed killing hundreds, as the government came under pressure to do more to enforce building safety standards. At least 390 people have been confirmed dead in what is just the latest incident to raise serious questions about worker safety and low wages in the poor South Asian country that relies on garments for 80 percent of its exports.

Gunmen surround Libyan justice ministry

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Gunmen in pick-up trucks surrounded Libya's justice ministry Tuesday to step up demands for former aides to deposed dictator Muammar Gaddafi to be barred from senior government posts, Reuters witnesses said. Tensions between the government and armed militias have been rising in recent weeks since a campaign was launched to dislodge the gunmen from their strongholds in the capital Tripoli.

Iran says use of chemical arms by anyone in Syria is "red line"

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said on Tuesday it regarded the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria's civil war as a "red line", echoing major adversary the United States but saying Syrian rebels were the main culprit and not the Damascus government. Last week Washington said it had "varying degrees of confidence" that Syrian government forces had likely used the nerve agent sarin on a small scale against rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad.

Saudi Arabia detains two in restive Shi'ite minority district

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi police have detained two men, including one wanted in connection with the unrest among minority Shi'ite Muslims, after a gunfight with them in the oil-producing Eastern Province, state media said on Tuesday. Shi'ites complain of systematic discrimination against them in Saudi Arabia, which follows the puritanical Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam.

European rights court criticizes Ukraine over Tymoshenko case

STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko was unlawfully held in detention before she was tried and sentenced to jail in 2011, the European Court of Human Rights said on Tuesday in a verdict that may add to Western complaints to Kiev over her fate. The French-based rights court dismissed allegations by Tymoshenko that she was subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment, but ruled the pre-trial detention order was an unjustified restriction of her freedom at that time.

Russian nightclub owner convicted for fire that killed 156

MOSCOW (Reuters) - An owner of a Russian nightclub where a fire killed 156 people was convicted of negligence on Tuesday, along with seven others including the organizer of a pyrotechnics show that caused the blaze. State prosecutors are seeking jail sentences of up to 10 years over the December 2009 fire at the Lame Horse nightclub in the city of Perm, 1,150 km (720 miles) east of Moscow.

Chechen convicted of killing Russian colonel

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Chechen man was convicted on Tuesday of killing Colonel Yuri Budanov, the first senior army officer jailed for murdering a civilian during Russia's wars in the North Caucasus province of Chechnya. A Moscow jury found Yusup Temerkhanov guilty of shooting Budanov in a Moscow street in 2011, in what prosecutors said they believed an act of revenge for the killing of his father in Chechnya, which he blamed on Russian forces.

Cyprus parliament decides on bailout, likely to vote yes

NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cyprus's parliament decides on Tuesday whether to back a bailout imposed by its EU partners, with approval likely from a thin majority against mounting calls for the island to exit the euro. Lawmakers were due to meet in an extraordinary session to ratify the terms of the aid, which is conditional on Cyprus winding down its second-largest bank and imposing heavy losses on uninsured depositors in another. Voting was expected on Tuesday afternoon.

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