Militants shoot down Iraqi helicopter and occupy northern town
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Militants shot down a helicopter on Saturday and briefly occupied a town, in an escalating turf war with Iraq’s government that has killed at least 25 people in two days, police said.
Nigeria court rules central bank governor can’t be arrested pending plea
ABUJA (Reuters) – A Nigerian court has issued an order on the security agencies, barring them from arresting suspended Central Bank Governor Lamido Sanusi, after he was briefly detained and his passport seized at the airport, a document viewed by Reute…
Algeria’s Bouteflika to seek fourth term in April
ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the aging independence veteran who suffered a stroke last year, will run in April’s election, the government said on Saturday, in a vote likely to hand him a fourth term in power.
Police attacked with grenade at Tunisian consulate in Libya
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Gunmen fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a police car parked in front of the Tunisian consulate in Libya’s eastern Benghazi city on Saturday, security officials said.
Suicide bomber kills three in Lebanon: security sources
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed two Lebanese soldiers and a civilian with a car bomb at an army checkpoint in a Hezbollah stronghold in northeast Lebanon on Saturday, security sources said.
Egypt’s ousted Mursi says jail-break trial is ‘void’
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s deposed President Mohamed Mursi on Saturday rejected the right of a court to try him and other Muslim Brotherhood leaders on charges related to a mass jail break in 2011, security and judicial sources said.
Gunmen kidnap Czech woman doctor in Yemen
ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) – A Czech doctor was kidnapped by gunmen in Yemen’s capital Sanaa on Saturday, the third foreigner to be snatched this month, security sources said.
U.N. Security Council unanimously approves Syria aid access resolution
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council achieved rare unity to act on Syria’s civil war on Saturday when Russia and China supported adoption of a resolution to boost aid access in Syria that threatens to take “further steps” in the case of…
Italy’s Renzi sworn in as prime minister
ROME (Reuters) – Italian center-left leader Matteo Renzi took office on Saturday as his country’s youngest prime minister, facing pressure to show immediate results after he forced out his predecessor over the slow pace of economic reforms.
Italy’s Renzi sworn in as prime minister
ROME (Reuters) – Italian center-left leader Matteo Renzi took office on Saturday as his country’s youngest prime minister, facing pressure to show immediate results after he forced out his predecessor over the slow pace of economic reforms.
