Egypt sentences 22 members of Brotherhood to death: judicial sources
CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court sentenced 22 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death on Monday over an attack on a police station in a district outside Cairo in 2013, judicial sources said.
EU regulators to formally charge Gazprom on Wednesday: sources
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU antitrust regulators will this week formally charge Russian gas giant Gazprom with overcharging customers in eastern Europe and hindering rivals in the region, two EU sources said on Monday.
Finland’s new ‘DIY’ PM aims for business acumen in government
HELSINKI (Reuters) – After only a few years of party leadership, Finland’s next prime minister Juha Sipila beat electoral expectations by emphasizing his business acumen as a telecom millionaire executive while maintaining traditional Finnish roots tha…
Ramadi exodus compounds Iraq humanitarian crisis
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Some pushed wheelbarrows piled high with their belongings across the only bridge to Baghdad. Others balanced battered suitcases on their heads, or held babies aloft so they would not be crushed in the exodus from Iraq’s western prov…
Obama, Tunisia’s Essebsi to meet in wake of attack, elections
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S President Barack Obama and Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi will meet in Washington next month to discuss security and economic issues, including the situation in neighboring Libya, the White House said in a statement on …
Islamic State shoots and beheads 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya: video
CAIRO (Reuters) – A video purportedly made by Islamic State and posted on social media sites on Sunday appeared to show militants shooting and beheading about 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya.
Russia says it has killed Islamist insurgency chief
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian security forces have killed the leader of an Islamist insurgency in the North Caucasus during a raid on a house in the Dagestan region, the national Anti-Terrorist Committee said on Monday.
French, Syrian intelligence agents in contact: Assad on French TV
PARIS (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has told French television the intelligence services of his country are in contact with their counterparts in France, which has severed diplomatic ties with Assad and insists he must leave power.
U.S. pair accused in Bali suitcase murder may hear verdicts Tuesday
JAKARTA (Reuters) – An Indonesian court is expected to deliver its verdicts on Tuesday on a U.S. couple accused in connection with the gruesome murder of an American woman whose body was stuffed into a suitcase on the resort island of Bali.
Truce tenuous as Ukraine leader tackles economy, oligarchs
KIEV (Reuters) – President Petro Poroshenko is using the breathing space from a ceasefire with separatists to push reforms and rein in super-rich ‘oligarchs’ whose influence he says must be curbed for Ukraine to have a future in Europe.
