Kenyan president to return disputed media bill to parliament
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta plans to send back to parliament a media bill critics say would stunt democracy in an African nation with unusually broad press freedoms.
Le Pen, Wilders call for Eurosceptic bloc in EU assembly
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Eurosceptics Geert Wilders of the Netherlands and Marine Le Pen of France called on Wednesday for like-minded parties across Europe to create a new political group within the European Parliament after 2014 assembly elections.
Bad deal with Iran could lead to war: Israel’s Netanyahu
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that war could result from a bad deal between world powers and Iran over its nuclear program.
Congo ready to sign document formalizing rebel defeat
KINSHASA (Reuters) – The Democratic Republic of Congo said on Wednesday it was ready to sign a “declaration” that reflects the defeat of M23 rebels, despite pulling out of Ugandan-hosted peace talks a day earlier.
Turkey to re-investigate 1994 deaths after European court ruling
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey said on Wednesday it would re-open an investigation into the deaths of 33 Kurdish villagers killed in an air strike 19 years ago, after the European Court of Human Rights found that government forces had carried out the atta…
Bulgaria’s ruling Socialists vow to stay despite protests
SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria’s ruling Socialists vowed on Wednesday to stay in power to pursue reforms despite continued street protests and accused their center-right rivals of using soccer hooligans to foment anti-government violence.
Bombings target Iraq police, pilgrims, killing 19
TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) – At least 19 people were killed in bomb attacks targeting Iraqi police and pilgrims on Wednesday, police and medical sources said, just before the end of a Shi’ite Muslim religious festival.
Protest in Moscow fuels Russia-Poland tension
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Protesters threw firecrackers at the Polish embassy in Moscow on Wednesday in response to a similar attack on the Russian mission in Warsaw, further straining ties between countries with a history of troubled relations.
Venezuela business leader says Maduro forcing ‘failed’ economic model
CARACAS (Reuters) – The man President Nicolas Maduro named as public enemy No. 1 in Venezuela’s “economic war” says a discredited state-driven growth model, not private enterprise, is to blame for the OPEC nation’s soaring consumer prices and chronic p…
Ukraine parliament deadlock on Tymoshenko clouds EU signing
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s parliament failed on Wednesday to agree on a draft law allowing jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko to go to Germany for medical treatment, clouding prospects for signing landmark agreements with the European Union this…
