Exclusive: U.S. warns governments, bankers Iran sanctions still in place
LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration has privately reminded foreign governments and U.S. bankers that sanctions against Iran remain in effect, cautioning against a rush by Western companies to invest in Iran’s oil industry and other businesses until the country fully complies with the July nuclear agreement.
China says U.S. human rights report biased
BEIJING (Reuters) – A U.S. congressional commission’s criticism of China’s human rights record did not “accord with the facts”, the Chinese government said on Friday, the latest friction over a long-running thorn in relations.
Pre-election clash in Guinea capital kills two, wounds 33
CONAKRY (Reuters) – Two people were killed and at least 33 were wounded in Guinea on Friday in clashes between supporters of President Alpha Conde and his main rival before Sunday’s election, witnesses and a senior police source said.
Western countries say endorse unity government for Libya
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Britain and the United States on Friday endorsed a national unity government in Libya as proposed by the United Nations to end the conflict between two rival governments in the war-torn country.
Gunmen kill three Burkina Faso gendarmes near Mali border
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Around 50 unidentified gunmen attacked a Burkina Faso gendarmerie brigade near the country’s western border with Mali on Friday, killing three in an attack the government blamed on the leaders of a failed coup last month.
Exclusive: U.S. warns governments, bankers Iran sanctions still in place
LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration has privately reminded foreign governments and U.S. bankers that sanctions against Iran remain in effect, cautioning against a rush by Western companies to invest in Iran’s oil industry and other businesses until the country fully complies with the July nuclear agreement.
Islamic State closes in on Syrian city of Aleppo; U.S. abandons rebel training effort
BEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) – Islamic State fighters have seized villages close to the northern city of Aleppo from rival insurgents, a monitoring group said on Friday, despite an intensifying Russian air-and-sea campaign that Moscow says has targeted the …
Protester killed in unrest in Iraq’s Kurdistan region
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Protesters torched an office of the main political party in Iraq’s Kurdish north on Friday after at least one demonstrator was killed in the worst unrest the region has seen for several years.
U.N. diplomat charged by U.S. for bribe scheme gets $2 million bail
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A deputy United Nations ambassador from the Dominican Republic facing U.S. charges over a bribery scheme had his bail set at $2 million on Friday, despite a prosecutor’s warnings that he poses a flight risk.
Swedish center right in favor of NATO membership
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s Christian Democrats voted on Friday to push for Sweden to join NATO, meaning all four parties from the center-right opposition are now in favor of NATO membership while the present red-green coalition government is agains…
