Eleven Saudi princes detained following protest over utility bills
RIYADH/DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabian authorities have detained 11 princes after they gathered at a royal palace in Riyadh in a rare protest against the government suspending payment of their utility bills, the public prosecutor said on Saturday.
Italy’s coast guard says eight migrants died at sea
MILAN (Reuters) – The Italian coast guard recovered the bodies of eight people as it rescued a further 84 from dinghy that ran into trouble off Libya’s coast, it said on Saturday.
Head of new crisis panel urges access to Myanmar’s Rakhine State
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Humanitarian workers and journalists should be given free access to Myanmar’s Rakhine State, where violence has prompted some 650,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh, the head of a new international advisory panel on the cris…
Palestinians attack car of Greek Patriarch in protest against land deals
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinian Christians on Saturday pummeled the car of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem during a visit to the occupied West Bank in protest against the church’s decision to sell land to Jewish groups.
Egypt orders detention of four men over hot air balloon crash
CAIRO (Reuters) – The public prosecutor in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor ordered the detention of four men pending an investigation into a hot air balloon crash that killed a South African tourist and injured several others, state news agency MEN…
Planes collide at Toronto’s Pearson Airport; passengers safe
(Reuters) – Dozens of passengers were evacuated from an aircraft at Toronto’s Pearson Airport late on Friday after a plane under tow struck an arriving jet that was waiting to park, sparking a small fire, the airport authority said.
Germany, Turkey pledge to thaw ties that coup crackdown and arrests froze
GOSLAR, Germany (Reuters) – Germany and Turkey’s foreign ministers on Saturday agreed to pull out all the stops to improve ties that have soured due to disputes over Ankara’s post-coup crackdown and the arrests of German citizens in Turkey, but they st…
Sudan closes border with Eritrea
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan has closed its border with Eritrea a week after Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir announced a six-month state of emergency in the regions of Kassala and North Kurdufan, state news agency SUNA said on Saturday.
Germany, Turkey pledge to thaw ties that coup and arrests froze
GOSLAR, Germany (Reuters) – Germany and Turkey’s foreign ministers on Saturday agreed to pull out all the stops to improve ties that have soured due to disputes over Ankara’s post-coup crackdown and the arrests of German citizens in Turkey.
Former Zimbabwe ministers loyal to Mugabe charged with corruption
HARARE (Reuters) – Two former Zimbabwean cabinet ministers who served under ex-president Robert Mugabe have been charged with corruption, their lawyers said on Saturday, the latest sign of a crackdown on officials loyal to Mugabe.
