Sisters in the vanguard as Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood battles to survive
CAIRO (Reuters) – In homes and streets around Egypt, women are keeping alive a group the authorities are determined to crush. They teach Muslim Brotherhood values to children, organize its protests, preserve its networks, and take an ever more prominen…
U.N. Gulf War fund to meet this week on Iraq payment delay
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations Gulf War reparations fund will hold a special meeting on Thursday to address Iraq’s plea to postpone a final $4.6 billion instalment payment for its 1990-91 occupation of Kuwait, a U.N. official said.
Kabila says Congo won’t bow to foreign ‘injunctions’
KINSHASA (Reuters) – The president of Democratic Republic of Congo told foreign nations on Monday to respect his country’s sovereignty after several urged him to comply with the constitution and not to run for re-election.
Russia says it wants east Ukraine to stay with Kiev under reformed constitution
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Moscow wants Ukraine to carry out a constitutional reform to allow more autonomy to Russian-speaking eastern regions that would then stay with Kiev, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in comments published on Monday.
Merkel urges Bulgaria to seek new talks with Putin on South Stream
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel backed Bulgaria on Monday in its bid to seek new talks with Russia about the South Stream gas pipeline after Moscow shelved the project this month in favor of an alternative link via Turkey.
Nordic countries summon Russian ambassadors over military jet incident
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden and Denmark protested to Moscow on Monday over a Russian military jet Stockholm said had shut down one of its location instruments and flown too close to a Swedish civilian airliner.
One in 500 people living with no nationality: report
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – One in 500 people globally has no nationality, experts said on Monday, a far higher estimate than that used by the United Nations which last month launched a major campaign to eradicate statelessness in a decade.
Iran’s Rouhani says will try to clinch nuclear deal as talks with U.S. resume
GENEVA/DUBAI (Reuters) – President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday that he would try to clinch a nuclear deal with world powers despite opposition from some quarters in Iran.
Germany says will help finance four new Israeli warships
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany plans to finance part of the cost of four new corvette warships for the Israeli navy made by German firm Thyssen Krupp under a deal struck with the Jewish state in November, the government said on Monday.
Rights group calls for ICC probe of Nigerian presidential candidate
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A Nigerian human rights group on Monday asked the International Criminal Court to bring charges against Nigerian presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari for post-election violence in 2011.
