Iran’s Zarif tells European lawmakers Islamist militancy also their problem
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told European Union lawmakers on Tuesday militant Islam was also a European problem as he defended Iran’s involvement in Syria’s civil war on the side of President Bashar al-Assad.
Egypt court clears policeman over 2011 torture, killing case
CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court on Tuesday cleared a former security officer charged with torturing to death an Islamist detainee suspected of bombing a church in Alexandria shortly before the 2011 uprising.
Iraqi Kurdish deputy PM says deal with Baghdad ‘easy’ if salaries paid
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – The deputy prime minister of Iraqi Kurdistan said a political and economic deal with Baghdad could easily be reached if the federal government agreed to pay the salaries of the region’s employees, including its armed forces.
Germany shuts down Islamic center in Bremen, raids apartments
BREMEN, Germany (Reuters) – The northern German city-state of Bremen shut down an Islamic cultural center on Tuesday after police raided it and the apartments of 12 of its members on suspicion of associations with Islamist militants.
Syria government has duty to allow convoys, ‘tomorrow we test this’ – de Mistura
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria said on Tuesday that the Assad government had an obligation to allow the world body to deliver humanitarian aid to all Syrians and that this would be tested on Wednesday.
Dozens of Afghan soldiers and police killed in Helmand
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Dozens of Afghan soldiers and policemen have been killed in the southern province of Helmand since Sunday as the Taliban presses an offensive in one of its heartlandss, officials said.
Israeli police briefly detain Washington Post bureau chief in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli border police briefly detained the Washington Post’s bureau chief in Jerusalem and a Palestinian colleague on Tuesday while they were conducting interviews at an entrance to the walled Old City.
U.S. will sign Paris Agreement and stick to it – Stern
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The United States will sign the Paris Agreement on climate change this year regardless of the Supreme Court’s decision to put a chunk of President Barack Obama’s environmental action on hold, the U.S. climate envoy said on Tuesday….
Ukraine’s biggest party to ask for no confidence vote on Tuesday
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s biggest party will ask the parliamentary speaker to hold a no confidence vote in the government on Tuesday, its parliamentary leader told reporters, shortly after President Petro Poroshenko suggested the prime minister should…
Genes, bugs and radiation: WHO backs new weapons in Zika fight
LONDON (Reuters) – Countries battling the Zika virus should consider new ways to curb disease-carrying mosquitoes, including testing the release of genetically modified insects and bacteria that stop their eggs hatching, the World Health Organization s…
