Libyan Salafist-led force breaks up comic festival for ‘indecency’
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – A Libyan force that acts as an anti-crime unit in Tripoli said it had arrested the organisers of a comic festival for “acts of indecency and against public morals”.
Mugabe set to appoint woman deputy, all eyes on wife
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is set to appoint a woman deputy after a special ruling party congress next month, the first lady said on Saturday and added that there was nothing wrong if her husband appointed her.
Lebanese PM Hariri resigns, attacking Iran, Hezbollah
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s prime minister Saad al-Hariri resigned on Saturday, saying he believed there was an assassination plot against him and accusing Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah of sowing strife in the Arab world.
Zimbabwe court upholds charge against U.S. citizen accused of subversion
HARARE (Reuters) – A Zimbabwean court on Saturday refused to strike down subversion charges against an American citizen who now faces 11 days in a Harare jail until her next court hearing.
Indonesian officials find multiple violations in deadly factory blaze
TANGERANG, Indonesia (Reuters) – Police investigating a fire that killed nearly 50 people at a fireworks factory on the outskirts of Jakarta late last month have found multiple safety violations at the plant, which was crammed with three times the numb…
German, Turkish foreign ministers meet after detainee released
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s foreign minister Siegmar Gabriel met his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in Turkey on Saturday, in a chance to discuss strained ties between the NATO allies after a series of diplomatic incidents.
Lebanese PM resigns, saying his life in danger
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s prime minister Saad al-Hariri resigned on Saturday, citing an assassination plot against him and accusing Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah of sowing strife in the Arab world.
Austrian party leader quits parliament over accusation of sexual assault
VIENNA (Reuters) – The fallout from the Harvey Weinstein scandal spread to Austria on Saturday as one of the country’s best-known politicians said he would give up his seat in parliament over an allegation of sexual assault.
U.S. monitoring sanctions regime in response to Myanmar situation: official
DHAKA (Reuters) – The U.S. government will constantly monitor its sanctions regime to respond to violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state that has sent hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees across the border to Bangladesh, a senior U.S. official…
Syria deal may be on agenda for Putin-Trump Asia meeting: report
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump may discuss a Syria settlement at an Asian economic summit in Vietnam next week, the RIA news agency reported on Saturday.
