Saudi Arabia and Arab allies push for unity against Iran, Hezbollah meddling
CAIRO (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia and other Arab foreign ministers criticized Iran and its Lebanese Shi’ite ally Hezbollah at an emergency meeting in Cairo on Sunday, calling for a united front to counter Iranian interference.
Israel president rejects pardon appeal of soldier who killed prone Palestinian assailant
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s president on Sunday turned down a pardon request by an ex-conscript who is serving an serving a 14-month jail term for killing an incapacitated Palestinian assailant.
Mugabe defies demands to quit as Zimbabwe’s leader after party fires him
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Sunday defied his own ZANU-PF party and hundreds of thousands of protesters demanding his resignation by pledging in a television address to preside over the party’s next congress in December.
Lebanon’s Hariri to visit Egypt on Tuesday: Hariri’s office
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Saad al-Hariri, who announced his resignation as Lebanese prime minister in a televised broadcast from Saudi Arabia on Nov. 4, will visit Egypt on Tuesday to meet Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Hariri’s office said on Sunda…
Algeria picks up 286 boat migrants en route to Europe
ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algeria’s coastguard has picked up 286 illegal migrants heading across the Mediterranean to Europe by boat, the Defence Ministry has said.
Stormy weather complicates search for missing Argentine submarine
MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina/BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – A storm on Sunday complicated the search for an Argentine navy submarine missing in the South Atlantic with 44 crew members, as authorities tried to verify that recent satellite calls seen as a sign the…
EU’s Tusk says alarmed that Poland’s policy resembles ‘Kremlin’s plan’
WARSAW (Reuters) – European Council President Donald Tusk said on Sunday he was alarmed by the similarity of policies pursued by Poland’s right-wing government to what he described as “Kremlin’s plan”.
Mugabe agrees to stand down as Zimbabwe president: source
HARARE (Reuters) – Robert Mugabe agreed on Sunday to resign as Zimbabwe’s president hours after the ruling ZANU-PF party fired him as its leader following 37 years in charge, a source familiar with the negotiations said.
Fifteen dead in food aid stampede in Morocco: ministry
RABAT (Reuters) – Fifteen people were killed and five more injured when a stampede broke out in the Moroccan town of Sidi Boulaalam on Sunday as food aid was being distributed in a market, the Interior Ministry said.
Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander, another fighter, killed in Syria: Iranian media
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A commander in Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards and a lower-ranking Iranian fighter have been killed fighting Islamic State in Syria in recent days, Iranian media reported on Sunday.
