17/10/2012 10:51
International press at a glance
BBC
US President Barack Obama has hit out at Republican Mitt Romney during a feisty 90-minute encounter in the second of three pre-election debates.
The Telegraph
Rwanda and Uganda, which will receive £75 million and £101.5 million of British aid respectively this year, are giving "direct military support" to the "M23" guerrillas in Congo, according to a UN "Group of Experts".
The Guardian
Paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Gauguin, Meyer de Haan, Lucian Freud and two by Monet were stolen on Tuesday from a gallery in Rotterdam in what will rank as one of the most spectacular art heists of modern times.
USA Today
Armed drones are flying over northern Africa, and U.S. special forces are on call, ready to attack if the Obama administration can identify who was behind the deadly Sept. 11 assault on the American Consulate in Libya, officials tell the Associated Press.
The Reuters
Syria's divided rebels have agreed to set up a joint leadership to oversee their battle to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, two insurgent sources said on Tuesday as fighting raged in cities across the country.
France 24
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic told the UN’s war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia on Tuesday that nobody could have foreseen the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica and that he “should have been rewarded” for trying to avoid war.
World press
A federal appeals court on Tuesday threw out the conviction of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden who served a prison term for material support for terrorism.