Saudi Arabia says hopes Iran will use sanctions money for development
MANAMA (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia hopes Iran will use the financial proceeds it secures after sanctions are lifted after its nuclear deal with world powers to develop its economy rather than for “aggressive policies”, Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said…
Iran threatens Arabs as much as Islamic State says Bahrain
MANAMA (Reuters) – Iranian support for subversion in Arab states is as big a threat to the region as the Islamic State jihadist group, Bahrain’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmed Al Khalifa said on Saturday at a security conference in Manama.
U.S. to send special forces to Syria, truce sought after peace talks
VIENNA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States disclosed plans on Friday to station its first ground troops in Syria for the war against Islamic State, saying dozens of U.S. soldiers would be sent as advisers to groups fighting the militants.
Knife-wielding Palestinians strike in West Bank, Jerusalem; two dead
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Knife-wielding Palestinians attacked Israelis in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank on Friday and police said they had shot dead two assailants, in a further wave of violence spurred partly by tensions over a Jerusalem holy site…
European Union sides with United States on South China Sea incident
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union sided with Washington on Friday over a U.S.-Chinese patrolling incident in the South China Sea, in a move that may affect Brussels’ discussions with Beijing at next week’s Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) of foreign af…
Romanian nightclub explosion leaves 26 dead, dozens injured
BUCHAREST (Reuters) – At least 26 people died and 88 were injured in an explosion and fire in a Bucharest, Romania, nightclub where hundreds of people had gathered late on Friday, government officials said, in one of the capital’s worst incidents in de…
U.S. to send special forces to Syria, truce sought after peace talks
VIENNA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States disclosed plans on Friday to station its first ground troops in Syria for the war against Islamic State, saying dozens of U.S. soldiers would be sent as advisers to groups fighting the militants.
Pope denounces clergy who criticized slain Salvadoran bishop Romero
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Friday criticized conservative clergy and bishops who he said had defamed slain Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero even after he was killed by a right-wing death squad in 1980.
European Union sides with United States on South China Sea incident
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union sided with Washington on Friday over a U.S.-Chinese patrolling incident in the South China Sea, in a move that may affect Brussels’ discussions with Beijing at next week’s Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) of foreign af…
Germany’s ability to act on migrants threatened, Merkel deputy says
BERLIN (Reuters) – German’s Social Democrat vice chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, warned on Friday that a dispute among the conservatives over how to handle record inflows of migrants into the country was jeopardising the government’s ability to act.
