Bahraini police, protesters clash after funeral
MANAMA (Reuters) – Bahraini police firing teargas and birdshot clashed with stone-throwing protesters in a village west of the capital on Sunday after the funeral of a young man who died in custody, witnesses said.
Yemen gunmen shoot dead senior security officer
ADEN (Reuters) – Gunmen shot dead a senior Yemeni security officer on Sunday, a security official said, the latest in a series of attacks on the police and army in a country battling Islamist insurgents.
Angola navy says missing tanker located, crew faked pirate attack
LISBON (Reuters) – Angola’s navy said on Sunday the crew of an oil tanker that vanished off its coast on January 18 had turned off communications to fake an attack, seeking to calm energy sector fears that the vessel had been hijacked by pirates.
Bad weather forces Quebec police to halt search of blaze ruins
L’ISLE-VERTE, Quebec (Reuters) – High winds and driving snow forced Quebec police on Sunday to suspend their search for bodies in the ice-clad ruins of a seniors’ residence following a fire that authorities now believe killed 32 people.
Bad weather forces Quebec police to halt search of blaze ruins
L’ISLE-VERTE, Quebec (Reuters) – High winds and driving snow forced Quebec police on Sunday to suspend their search for bodies in the ice-clad ruins of a seniors’ residence following a fire that authorities now believe killed 32 people.
Protesting migrants sew mouths shut in Italy
ROME (Reuters) – Thirteen Moroccan migrants held in a reception center in Rome for more than two months have sewed their mouths shut in protest at the length of their detention, police and campaigners said on Sunday.
EU, Russia to swap recriminations over Ukraine
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union and Russian leaders will trade recriminations over Ukraine at a summit on Tuesday, as the former Soviet republic reels from violent unrest after spurning the EU’s embrace and lurching back towards Moscow.
Snowden says NSA engages in industrial espionage: TV
BERLIN (Reuters) – The U.S. National Security Agency is involved in industrial espionage and will grab any intelligence it can get its hands on regardless of its value to national security, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden told a German TV network….
Egypt, reneging on roadmap, to start elections with presidential vote
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt will hold a presidential vote before electing parliament, President Adly Mansour said on Sunday, reneging on a roadmap and increasing the likelihood that army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will be elected as head of state w…
Egyptian soldiers killed in Sinai as protest toll rises to 49
CAIRO (Reuters) – Gunmen killed three Egyptian soldiers in an attack on a bus in the Sinai Peninsula on Sunday, the military said, prompting a warning from the army that it would eliminate the Muslim Brotherhood, which it blames for much of Egypt’s pol…
