Syrians vote in wartime election set to extend Assad’s rule
DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syrians voted on Tuesday in an election expected to deliver an overwhelming victory for President Bashar al-Assad but which his opponents have dismissed as a charade in the midst of Syria’s devastating civil war.
Sisi won 96.91 percent in Egypt’s presidential vote-commission
CAIRO (Reuters) – Former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi won 96.91 percent in Egypt’s presidential vote last week, the election commission said on Tuesday, confirming interim results that had given him a landslide victory.
Merkel eyes IMF’s Lagarde for EU Commission chief: sources
PARIS (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel has asked France whether it would be willing to put forward International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde as president of the European Commission, two French sources briefed on the exchanges said….
Germany says report Merkel suggested Lagarde for top EU job untrue
BERLIN (Reuters) – A Reuters report that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has asked France whether it would be willing to put forward IMF chief Christine Lagarde as president of the European Commission is untrue, a German government spokesman said on Tu…
Niger says it has intercepted over 500 Sahara migrants
NIAMEY (Reuters) – Niger has stopped more than 500 would-be migrants trying to cross the Sahara into neighboring Algeria in the past four months, the justice ministry said on Tuesday, as it cracks down on gangs ferrying people across the desert.
EU antitrust regulators studying D-Day TV cost row
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union regulators are reviewing several complaints about the cost of access to this week’s 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings to see if this breaches the bloc’s antitrust and telecoms rules.
Obama offers military help to eastern Europe allies worried by Russia
WARSAW (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama promised on Tuesday to beef up military support for eastern European members of the NATO alliance who fear they could be next in the firing line after the Kremlin’s intervention in Ukraine.
French Sahara hostage appeals in video for negotiated release
DUBAI (Reuters) – A video of French hostage Serge Lazarevic, appealing to France’s President Francois Hollande to negotiate his release after two years in captivity in the Sahara, was aired by Dubai-based Akhbar Al Aan TV on Tuesday.
Exclusive: Iran’s reactor fuel demand emerges as sticking point in nuclear talks
BRUSSELS/VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran has said it should be able to produce fuel for its Bushehr nuclear power plant, a demand that world powers are unlikely to agree to and which may put a July deadline for a deal to end its nuclear standoff with the West …
U.N. rights chief urges China tell truth on Tiananmen
GENEVA (Reuters) – United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay on Tuesday called on China to reveal the truth about the army’s violent suppression of mass pro-democracy protests on Beijing’s Tiananmen Square 25 years ago.
