Libyan air controllers strike to protest against airport shelling
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Air controllers in western Libya have gone on strike to protest the shelling of Tripoli’s main airport, halting flights in much of the oil-producing country, a government official said on Thursday.
Confident Assad launches new term in stronger position
DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Bashar al-Assad was sworn in for a new term as Syria’s president on Wednesday, after an election which his opponents dismiss as a sham but which he said proved he had achieved victory after a “dirty war” to unseat him.
More Ukrainian soldiers killed as fighting rages in east, peace move flops
KIEV/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Pro-Moscow separatists battled to break through lines of government forces near the border with Russia in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, and a tentative step towards agreeing a ceasefire in the intensifying three-month c…
Libyan air controllers strike to protest against airport shelling
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Air controllers in western Libya have gone on strike to protest against the shelling of Tripoli’s main airport, halting flights in much of the oil producing country, an official said on Thursday.
EU leaders fail to agree on top jobs, to decide end August
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders failed to agree at a summit on Wednesday on sharing out a package of top jobs in the 28-nation bloc, including a new foreign policy chief, and postponed the decision until late August.
At least five Tunisia soldiers dead after militant attack
TUNIS (Reuters) – At least five Tunisian soldiers were killed after gunmen attacked military checkpoints near the Algerian border, where the army has been conducting an operation to flush out Islamist militant fighters, the TAP state news agency and a …
Shelling kills four boys on Gaza beach; Israel, Hamas set five-hour truce
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli shelling killed four Palestinian boys on a Gaza beach on Wednesday, an incident the military called tragic, and Israel and Hamas said they would cease attacks for five hours on Thursday for a humanitarian truce reques…
Kerry, Hagel to visit India to push strategic ties
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – America’s top diplomat and the head of its Defense Department will visit India in coming weeks seeking to revitalize a relationship the United States sees as a crucial counterbalance in Asia to an increasingly assertive China.
Iran, powers seek to agree terms for extending nuclear talks: diplomats
VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran and six world powers are working to finalize the terms of a likely extension in negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program beyond a July 20 deadline and an announcement may come as early as Friday, Western diplomats said.
Iraq Sunni insurgency seeks end to Shi’te political domination
AMMAN (Reuters) – Sunni insurgents and tribal leaders said on Wednesday after a closed meeting they would keep fighting until they take over the Iraqi capital and bring down a U.S. imposed political order that brought Shi’ites to rule the country and m…
