Iran pushes nuclear deal as U.S. lawmaker aims to stop it
DUBAI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Iran’s pragmatist government tried on Wednesday to sell its nuclear agreement with world powers to hardliners at home, just as a U.S. Congressional leader promised to do “everything possible” to sink the deal.
Romania’s ruling party elects interim as PM Ponta investigated
BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania’s ruling party elected an interim leader on Wednesday to replace Prime Minister Victor Ponta who quit the post last month pending a criminal investigation.
Saudi King Salman to visit United States in the fall: Carter
AMMAN (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s King Salman is expected to visit the United States in the fall, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter told reporters after his meeting with the monarch.
South Sudan government forces commit war crimes in Unity: rights group
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – South Sudanese government forces attacked and killed scores of civilians, carried out public gang rapes and burned people alive during a recent military offensive in northern Unity State, a rights group said on Wed…
Israeli brothers jailed for Jewish-Arab school arson
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli court jailed two brothers from a far-right Jewish group on Wednesday for an arson attack on a Jerusalem school that had been a rare symbol of co-existence in the riven city.
Boko Haram resurgence deepens humanitarian crisis in Niger
DIFFA, Niger (Reuters) – A wave of attacks by Islamist insurgents Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria and the islands of Lake Chad has forced tens of thousands across the border to Niger’s arid southeastern region of Diffa, worsening a dire humanitarian si…
Under Kremlin pressure, ‘undesirable’ U.S. charity pulls out of Russia
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A U.S.-based non-governmental organization has become the latest casualty in what campaigners say is a global tightening of restrictions on charitable activity by authoritarian governments, by deciding to close its…
Serbian PM hosts Bosnian leaders, cools tempers after mob attack
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbia’s prime minister said on Wednesday he had already forgotten a mob attack on him in Bosnia 11 days ago as he hosted Bosnia’s three-man presidency in a visit designed to cool tempers between the ex-Yugoslav republics.
Egypt court sentences Mubarak-era prime minister to five years jail
CAIRO (Reuters) – Ahmed Nazif, a former Egyptian prime minister under ousted president Hosni Mubarak, was sentenced to five years in jail on graft charges in a retrial on Wednesday, judicial sources said.
U.S. rights group branded ‘undesirable’ closes Russia office
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The MacArthur Foundation, a U.S. group that promotes human rights, said on Wednesday it was closing its Moscow office after Russian parliamentarians put it on a list of non-desirable organizations.
