Hezbollah says Syria vote means foes can’t demand Assad quit
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s landslide election victory means that his civil war foes can no longer call for his departure as a precondition for peace, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday.
Pope’s Mideast prayer meeting not political meddling: Vatican
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis hopes an unprecedented meeting of the Israeli and Palestinian presidents at the Vatican on Sunday can help end “eternal negotiations” and lead to peace but he has no wish to meddle in Middle East politics, the Vati…
Exclusive: Egypt turns to Western advisers, signaling possible reforms – sources
CAIRO/LONDON (Reuters) – Western advisers are drawing up plans for reshaping the Egyptian economy, sources said, with the apparent blessing of president-elect Abdel Fattah al-Sisi who so far has spoken only vaguely in public about reviving the state’s …
Nazi restitution fraud case stirs anger at Vienna court
VIENNA (Reuters) – A journalist critical of Austria’s record in returning Jewish property seized by the Nazis failed on Friday to gain his freedom after conviction on charges he defrauded the state in illicitly increasing his mother’s claim on a buildi…
Thai junta tracks Internet posting to capture protest leader
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai security forces tracked down and detained a prominent activist who helped organise protests against last month’s military coup from comments he posted on the Internet, officials said on Friday.
Fourth person dies after Brussels Jewish Museum shooting
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A Belgian man shot in the attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels died on Friday, bringing the death toll to four.
At least one killed in Kosovo power plant blast, supplies hit
OBILIC, Kosovo (Reuters) – A hydrogen tank exploded at Kosovo’s second biggest power plant on Friday, killing at least one person and injuring 13, officials said.
Nigerian newspapers accuse army of seizing print-runs
YENAGOA Nigeria (Reuters) – Three Nigerian newspapers said the army seized parts of their Friday print-runs and stopped distribution vans across the country, with one accusing the military of a rare crackdown on the media.
WHO experts find hospital breaches worsened MERS outbreak in UAE
LONDON (Reuters) – Lapses in hospital infection control measures exacerbated an outbreak of a deadly new viral disease which has infected more than 60 people and killed at least 10 in the United Arab Emirates, health investigators said on Friday.
Serbia indicts four for Milosevic-era journalist murder
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbia’s top state prosecutor charged four former state security officers on Friday over the 1999 killing of opposition newspaper publisher and journalist Slavko Curuvija during the rule of late strongman president Slobodan Milosev…
