SANAA (Reuters) - Shi’ite rebels in Yemen are receiving financial support from abroad, a government spokesman said on Tuesday, strongly implying Iranian involvement in an armed rebellion that has flared up in recent weeks.

SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday ordered a battle-hardened Russian general “to put in order” troubled Ingushetia, a day after a suicide bomb attack defied Moscow’s control of its restive southern flank.

KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden car into a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, killing at least eight people in a wave of violence two days before an election the Taliban has vowed to disrupt.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refrained from initiating new housing projects in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, hoping to reach common ground with Washington, a government minister said on Tuesday.

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish opponents of the European Union’s Lisbon reform treaty on Tuesday launched their campaign ahead of October’s referendum with a warning the charter would leave workers worse off and more exposed to spending cuts.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has ordered two Czech diplomats to leave the country in a tit-for-tat spying row with Prague, Interfax news agency quoted an unidentified Russian official as saying on Tuesday.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Criminal impunity has become an increasing target of public anger in Sri Lanka since the end of a 25-year war in May, which exposed the extent to which the rule of law has eroded in the Indian Ocean island nation.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has arrested eight people who hijacked the merchant ship Arctic Sea, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies on Tuesday.

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - In a move that could speed his release, Scotland’s high court agreed that a Libyan jailed for the 1988 bombing of a plane over Lockerbie can drop his appeal against conviction.

SEOUL (Reuters) - Former President Kim Dae-jung, a giant in South Korea’s shift to democracy who won the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to forge a reconciliation with the prickly communist North, died on Tuesday at the age of 85.