Iranian official calls on West to scrap nuclear arms before any missile talks
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran will not negotiate over its ballistic missiles until the United States and Europe dismantle nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, a top Iranian military official said on Saturday.
Bosnia police, protesting war veterans in standoff after clash
MRAVICI, Bosnia (Reuters) – Bosnian police and hundreds of veterans of the country’s 1990s war were locked in a tense standoff on Saturday on the country’s main highway as the protesters demanded fairer distribution of government benefits.
Moscow sees extended U.S. sanctions over Ukraine as unlawful
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin considers sanctions against Russia over the situation in Ukraine that Washington extended for one more year as unlawful, Russia’s RIA state news agency quoted the Kremlin spokesman as saying on Saturday.
Avalanche kills Spanish skier in French Pyrenees
PARIS (Reuters) – An avalanche in the French Pyrenees swept away five Spanish skiers on Saturday, killing one and injuring another, authorities in the Hautes-Pyrenees said.
Israeli troops kill Palestinian near Gaza border: officials
GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli soldiers shot and killed a Palestinian near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip on Saturday, Palestinian officials said.
Syrian government makes Ghouta gains; Turkey steps up Afrin attack
BEIRUT/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Syrian government forces gained more ground in an assault on eastern Ghouta near Damascus on Saturday as they seek to defeat the last major rebel enclave near the capital, a war monitor and a news service run by Lebanon’s He…
U.N. halts aid work in northeast Nigeria town after humanitarian workers killed
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations has suspended aid work helping tens of thousands of people in northeastern Nigeria after an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants left three humanitarian workers dead and at least three others missing, possibly …
Egypt’s top court waives legal challenges to Red Sea islands transfer to Saudi
(The story was refiled to corrects paragraph 6 to say .. one week later ..not.. one month later)
Chile’s Pinera to present pension reform in first half of 2018: media
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Conservative Chilean President-Elect Sebastian Pinera will present a proposal to reform the country’s pension system to Congress in the first half of 2018, one of his future ministers said in an interview published on Saturday.
Bahrain says seizes armed network set up by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard
DUBAI (Reuters) – Bahrain said on Saturday it had rounded up 116 members of an armed network established and supported by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, suspected of plotting attacks on Bahraini government officials and security forces.
