Egypt’s Mursi accuses army of role in deaths during 2011 protest
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi accused the country’s army in one of his trials on Sunday of killing protestor during the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak.
Israel lobbies foreign powers to cut ICC funding
JERUSALEM/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Israel is lobbying member-states of the International Criminal Court to cut funding for the tribunal in response to its launch of an inquiry into possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories, the country’s foreign …
Rival parliament says U.N. talks must be held inside Libya
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s rival parliament decided on Sunday that it would attend U.N.-sponsored talks to end the country’s political turmoil only if they were held inside Libya, officials said.
Iran minister’s Saudi visit delayed due to oil price fall: Tehran
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has postponed a visit to Saudi Arabia in protest against Riyadh’s reluctance to cut oil production, a senior Iranian official said on Sunday.
Al Qaeda says downs Syrian cargo plane, army says fog causes crash
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Syrian wing of al Qaeda, the Nusra Front, said on Sunday it had shot down an army cargo plane carrying food and ammunition overnight, but Syrian state television blamed the loss of the aircraft and its crew on bad weather.
Egyptian liberals demand Mubarak face court over attack by supporters on camels
CAIRO (Reuters) – Liberal Egyptian parties filed new judicial complaints against ousted former ruler Hosni Mubarak on Sunday, including over a deadly camel charge against protesters led by his supporters, after a string of court rulings in his favor.
Anti-Charlie rally in Pakistan draws 5,000
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – Around 5,000 people rallied against French magazine Charlie Hebdo in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore on Sunday, and the founder of a group banned for militant links urged protesters to boycott French products.
German eurosceptic party at crossroads before key election
HAMBURG, Germany (Reuters) – Sounding more like the economics professor he once was than the dangerous far-right firebrand some say he has become, Bernd Lucke spoke at length about the perils of the euro zone and unfettered immigration at a campaign ra…
Germany’s anti-Islam PEGIDA march canceled due to attack threat
BERLIN (Reuters) – A march by the German anti-Islam PEGIDA movement in the eastern city of Dresden planned for Monday has been canceled due to a concrete threat of an attack against one of its leaders at the weekly rally, police in Dresden said on Sund…
Italy expels nine suspected Islamist militants
ROME (Reuters) – Italy has expelled nine suspected Islamist militants so far this year as part of a heightened security alert throughout Europe and could make further expulsions, Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said on Sunday.
