Iran’s Zarif under fire for stance on Holocaust
DUBAI (Reuters) – Islamic hardliners in Iran’s parliament have summoned Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif over public comments condemning the Holocaust, the official news agency IRNA reported on Monday.
Seven Egyptian Christians found shot execution-style on Libyan beach
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libyan police have found seven Egyptian Christians shot dead on a beach in eastern Libya, security officials and local residents said on Monday, in the second such execution-style killing since the start of the year.
Two killed in suicide attack outside Iranian consulate in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Two security guards were killed and more than a dozen people wounded on Monday in a suicide bombing outside the Iranian consulate in Peshawar in northwest Pakistan, police said.
Russian police detain protesters outside trial over anti-Putin rally
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian riot police detained over a hundred protesters on Monday at a Moscow courthouse where seven opponents of President Vladimir Putin were jailed from two and a half to four years over a demonstration that turned violent.
In sweeping move, Pope creates office to oversee Vatican finances
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis has taken his boldest step yet to overhaul the Vatican’s scandal-plagued finances, creating a new department with broad powers to oversee all of its economic and administrative affairs, the Vatican said on Monday.
Italy’s new PM Renzi faces first parliamentary test
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi faces his first test before a fractious national parliament on Monday when he goes to the Senate to put flesh on ambitious reform plans and seeks to win a confidence vote in his newly installed gover…
Mali finds five more bodies in graves near ex-junta base
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Malian authorities have found five corpses in army uniforms in two graves near the headquarter of a former military junta during part of an investigation into officers who briefly seized power in a coup in 2012.
Correa government loses Ecuador capital in local election
QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuador’s opposition won control of the capital Quito and one other major city in the oil-producing Andean nation in elections on Sunday, preliminary results showed, in a blow to the socialist government of President Rafael Correa.
Brazil presses EU for undersea cable to skirt U.S. links
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff pressed ahead on Monday with plans to lay an undersea communications cable directly to Europe to reduce Brazil’s reliance on the United States following reports that Washington spied on Brasilia.
Thai PM rules out resigning as bombs, gunfire punctuate unrest
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, the target of anti-government protests in Bangkok, has been staying outside the city and on Monday ruled out resigning despite a series of deadly attacks heaping pressure on her administratio…
