Egypt rejects appeal of defeated presidential candidate
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s elections committee said on Sunday it had rejected a defeated presidential candidate’s appeal against voting results that gave former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi a landslide victory.
Netanyahu urges world not to recognise Palestinian unity government
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday warned against any international rush to recognise a Palestinian government due to be announced under a unity pact between the Fatah and Hamas Islamist groups.
Central African Republic premier calls for voluntary disarmament next week
DAKAR (Reuters) – Central African Republic’s prime minister on Sunday called for voluntary national disarmament next week in a bid to halt a worsening cycle of violence that threatens to drive Muslims from the West of the country.
NATO to discuss reinforcing troops in Poland-German defense ministry
BERLIN (Reuters) – NATO defense ministers will discuss temporarily reinforcing forces in Poland when they meet in Brussels this week, a spokesman for the German defense ministry said on Sunday, a move that would be aimed at reassuring countries nervous…
Cuba experiments with wholesale market for farmers
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba opened its first wholesale market for farmers in decades on Sunday, an experiment limited to agricultural supplies in one area and the latest market-oriented reform for the communist-run island.
France arrests suspect in Brussels Jewish museum shooting
PARIS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A 29-year-old Frenchman believed to have returned recently from fighting with Islamist militant rebels in Syria has been arrested for the killing of three people at Brussels’ Jewish Museum last month, prosecutors said on Sunday.
Warplane targets Islamist base, hits university in Libya’s Benghazi
BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) – A Libyan warplane under the command of a renegade former general targeted an Islamist militia base in the eastern city of Benghazi on Sunday but instead hit a university building, witnesses said.
Slovenia to hold snap election on July 13 – president Pahor
LJUBLA (Reuters) – Slovenia will hold a snap parliamentary election on July 13, President Borut Pahor declared on Sunday.
Kuwait’s ruler makes rare visit to Iran to build ties
DUBAI (Reuters) – Kuwait’s emir began a visit to Iran on Sunday, the first by a ruler of the U.S.-allied Gulf Arab state since the 1979 Islamic revolution, underscoring improving ties between Tehran and its Arab neighbors.
In Europe, Obama gets second chance to explain his Russia policy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama heads to Warsaw, Brussels, Paris and Normandy this week where he is expected to elaborate on the U.S. commitment to counter Russian moves against Ukraine and reassure nervous allies the United States has th…
