‘Parallel state’ phone-tapped thousands in Turkey: officials
ANKARA (Reuters) – The network of a U.S.-based cleric illegally tapped thousands of telephones in Turkey to blackmail and concoct criminal cases as part of a campaign of covert influence over government, a top adviser to Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan s…
Peru’s PM steps down after spat with finmin and first lady: source
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s prime minister Cesar Villanueva resigned following a spat with the finance minister and the first lady, setting the stage for President Ollanta Humala to replace his cabinet chief for the fifth time since assuming power in 2011,…
Bombs target church, restaurant in Zanzibar
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Homemade bombs went off near a cathedral and a restaurant popular with tourists on Monday on the semi-autonomous and mainly Muslim Zanzibar islands, where sectarian tensions have been mounting, a police spokesman said.
Cuba continues to trim state payroll, build private sector
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba continued to shed state jobs and move workers into the private sector in 2013, according to a report issued by the official labor federation at the weekend, as President Raul Castro pressed forward with reforms to the Soviet-sty…
Bosnia unrest is ‘local fire’ that can be put out: PM
LONDON (Reuters) – The recent unrest in Bosnia is a local “fire” than can be quickly put out by moves to raise living standards, Prime Minister Vjekoslav Bevanda said on Monday.
U.N. rights envoy points to apartheid in Palestinian areas
GENEVA (Reuters) – Israel’s policies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip appear to amount to apartheid due to its systematic oppression of the Palestinian people and de facto expropriation of their land, a United Nations investigator said in a report.
India says drops anti-piracy charges against Italian marines
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India has dropped a plan to prosecute two Italian marines accused of killing two Indian fishermen under a tough anti-piracy law, a government lawyer said on Monday, offering a chance to end a diplomatic row between the two countri…
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.
