Iran nuclear talks advancing, no deal likely next week: U.S. official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Negotiations on an agreement to curb Iran’s nuclear program have advanced substantially, but difficult issues remain and a senior U.S. official said he did not expect a deal in the coming week.
Deaths shake Ukraine truce; Poroshenko wary of Russian threat
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine on Friday reported the first deaths in three days in east Ukraine and President Petro Poroshenko said Russia would pose a “military threat” even if a ceasefire holds.
Mexico captures most wanted drug kingpin, former teacher ‘La Tuta’
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico captured its most wanted drug lord on Friday, former primary school teacher Servando “La Tuta” Gomez, and delivered a boost to a government battered by gang violence.
Teacher denies radicalizing Canadian teens headed to Syria
MONTREAL (Reuters) – A Muslim teacher once jailed by Canada as a security threat denied on Friday he had radicalized Canadian teens believed to have headed to Syria to fight with Islamic State, saying his school had only brief contact with one of the s…
American blogger killed in Bangladesh machete attack
DHAKA (Reuters) – Machete-wielding assailants hacked to death an American critic of religious extremism in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, in the latest of a series of attacks on writers who support freethinking values in the Muslim-majority nation.
China questions U.S. threat of U.N. sanctions on South Sudan
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – China on Friday questioned the logic behind a U.S. push to create a United Nations sanctions regime for South Sudan while warring parties there negotiate a power-sharing deal to end the conflict in the country, the world’s ne…
Argentine judge says no evidence government tried to derail bombing probe
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – There is no evidence that President Cristina Fernandez tried to whitewash Iran’s purported involvement in a deadly 1994 bombing, an Argentine judge told Reuters in an interview on Thursday after dismissing the case.
Libyan PM says Turkey supplying weapons to rival Tripoli group
CAIRO/BENGHAZI (Reuters) – Libya’s internationally recognized Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni said his government would stop dealing with Turkey because it was sending weapons to a rival group in Tripoli so that “the Libyan people kill each other”.
Iran, six powers to hold nuclear talks in Switzerland on March 5: EU
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Senior officials from Iran and six powers negotiating with Tehran over its nuclear program will hold more talks in Montreux, Switzerland, on March 5, the European Union said on Friday.
Nearly half of Greeks would back Syriza in new election: poll
ATHENS (Reuters) – Nearly half of Greeks would back the governing leftist party of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras if elections were held this week, a Metron Analysis poll to be published on Saturday showed.
