Student killed, opposition leader detained as bread protests grip Sudan
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Protests over rising bread prices broke out across Sudan on Sunday, leading to the death of a student and the arrest of a prominent opposition leader as authorities confiscated newspapers and looked to clamp down on growing unrest….
At least 18 killed in explosion in Syria’s Idlib: war monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – At least 18 people were killed and tens more injured, including civilians, in an explosion in Syria’s northwestern city of Idlib, a war monitor reported on Sunday.
Sudan bread protests spread, opposition leader detained
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Protests over rising bread prices broke out in Sudan’s capital and spread across cities to the south on Sunday, witnesses said, as authorities arrested a prominent opposition leader and confiscated newspapers in a drive to curb gro…
Friends of detained Reuters reporter pray for his release
YANGON (Reuters) – Friends of Reuters reporter Wa Lone gathered on Sunday at one of the main Buddhist pagodas in Myanmar’s commercial capital Yangon to pray for his release from prison, where he has been held with a colleague on suspicion of violating …
Yemeni party names new leader after Saleh killed
DUBAI (Reuters) – The party of former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh named a new leader on Sunday after he was killed last month by the Iran-aligned Houthi movement his one-time allies in the country’s civil war.
Cornered Merkel upbeat as seeks to revive grand coalition
BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel is optimistic her conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) can cut a deal, she said on Sunday as the parties began five days of talks about reviving the ‘grand coalition’ that has governed Germany since 2…
Netanyahu tiptoes around U.S. threat to cut off Palestinian aid
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin trod carefully on Sunday around a threatened U.S. aid cut to Palestinians, stopping short of backing a funding halt as he repeated calls for a U.N. agency that helps Palestinian refugees to be disma…
Two hundred migrants reach Spain after storming fence
BARCELONA (Reuters) – More than 300 people stormed the heavily fortified border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave Melilla in what authorities on Sunday called a mass “violent crossing”.
Man dies in Stockholm blast; police see no terrorism link
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – One man died after an explosion outside an underground station in Stockholm on Sunday, police said, adding they did not believe the incident was terrorism-related.
Iran Guards say quell unrest fomented by foreign enemies
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday the country’s people and security forces had put an end to unrest fomented by foreign enemies, as parliament and security officials met to discuss the boldest challenge to the clerical establ…
