Syrian government retakes border town in Assad coastal heartland
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian government forces retook Kasab on Sunday, ousting rebels from the village on the Turkish border in the coastal heartland of President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority sect, activists and state media said.
Egyptian security forces seize Brotherhood leaders’ assets
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian security forces have seized supermarket chains owned by two leading figures of the Muslim Brotherhood as part of the government’s crackdown against the banned organization, judicial and security sources told Reuters on Sunday…
Bangladesh accuses 17 over garment factory collapse
DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Sunday filed a case with local police accusing 17 people of breaching regulations over the construction of a building that collapsed last year, killing over 1,130 mostly garment workers.
NATO says Russia considers it an opponent, prepares Ukraine aid
MADRID (Reuters) – NATO is preparing measures to help Ukraine defend itself in its stand-off with Russia, and must adapt to the fact that Moscow now views it as an adversary, Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in an interview published on Sun…
Election candidate from Kosovo PM’s party shot dead
PRISTINA (Reuters) – A parliamentary candidate from the party of Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci was shot dead on Sunday, police said, one week after an inconclusive general election in the tiny Balkan nation.
Palestinian boy, 7, dies of injuries from Israeli air strike: medics
GAZA (Reuters) – A seven-year-old boy has died of wounds suffered in an Israeli air strike that killed his uncle, a Palestinian militant, as they were riding on a motorcycle in the Gaza Strip, relatives and hospital officials said on Sunday.
Pope says first trip in Europe will be to Albania
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis said on Sunday his first trip to a European country would be to Albania in September to pay tribute to those who suffered under communism.
Cambodians flee Thailand as junta targets illegal labor
SA KAEW Thailand (Reuters) – Squatting on the ground with their hands on each others’ shoulders in 15 neat rows, hundreds of illegal Cambodian workers, including women and children, await deportation at an army base near the Thai-Cambodia border.
China summons Japan defense attache over jets dispute
BEIJING (Reuters) – China summoned Japan’s defense attache on Friday to lodge a protest after the two countries traded accusations over the conduct of military jets above disputed waters, the Defence Ministry said on Saturday.
Ukraine expects gas talks with Russia as deadline looms
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine said it expected to resume talks with Russia on a gas pricing dispute on Sunday evening, with a deadline looming for Kiev to pay a $1.95 billion debt by Monday or have its gas supplies cut off.
