Inaction on peace risks setting Israeli-Palestinian conflict ‘ablaze’: France
CAIRO (Reuters) – French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius warned Israel and the Palestinians on Saturday that the stalemate in the peace process risked setting the conflict “ablaze” and urged both sides to return to the negotiating table quickly.
Car bomb explodes in Yemen capital near mosque used by Houthis, two dead
SANAA (Reuters) – Islamic State group said it was behind a car bomb that exploded in Yemen’s capital Sanaa on Saturday near the Qiba al-Mahdi mosque, killing two people and wounding six others, witnesses and a security source told Reuters.
Venezuela says Brazil senators sought to destabilize the country
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s foreign ministry has accused a group of Brazilian senators of seeking to destabilize the country during a brief visit on Thursday and denied their safety was under threat.
German police arrest Al Jazeera journalist in Berlin: lawyer
BERLIN (Reuters) – A leading Al Jazeera journalist was arrested at a Berlin airport on Saturday at the request of Egypt, a lawyer for the Qatar-based satellite network said, a move he described as part of a crackdown by Cairo on the channel.
After midnight in the library, Putin sets out his world view
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – It was two minutes before midnight when Russian President Vladimir Putin finally entered the meeting room in the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library, more than three hours late, to be interviewed by a dozen exhausted jo…
Saudi Arabia warns citizens against sharing ‘faked’ documents after Wikileaks release
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia on Saturday urged its citizens not to distribute “documents that might be faked” in an apparent response to WikiLeaks’ publication on Friday of more than 60,000 documents it says are secret Saudi diplomatic communication…
U.S., allies conduct 16 air strikes in Iraq, six in Syria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. and coalition forces targeted the Islamic State on Friday with 16 air strikes in Iraq and six in Syria, the U.S. military said in a statement on Saturday.
Poland’s Kaczynski names deputy party leader as potential PM
WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish conservative opposition party Law and Justice on Saturday named deputy leader Beata Szydlo as its candidate for prime minister after this year’s parliamentary election, which, according to opinion polls, the party is poised to…
Election success depends on stability of Myanmar: Suu Kyi
YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Saturday the country would need to be stable for an election due in November to be successful and urged her party’s candidates to be open about their assets.
Thailand says 175 exposed to MERS patient; South Korea reports no new case
BANGKOK (Reuters) – A total of 175 people were exposed to Thailand’s only case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and the patient’s condition has improved, the health ministry said on Saturday.
