Iran confirms exchange of letters with Obama
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran said on Tuesday that President Hassan Rouhani had exchanged letters with U.S. President Barack Obama, confirming a rare contact between leaders of the two nations at loggerheads over Iran’s nuclear program, the Syrian war and oth…
Macedonia charges 20 with spying for neighboring state
SKOPJE (Reuters) – Macedonia charged 20 people on Tuesday, including serving and former intelligence officers, with selling state secrets to a neighboring country and using classified information to blackmail businessmen.
Witness in Kenyan deputy president trial recalls church burning
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The first witness to appear in the trial of Kenya’s deputy president told the International Criminal Court on Tuesday how a mob of youths, with painted faces and armed with machetes, torched the church where she and her family had…
Egypt detains Brotherhood spokesman Haddad: officials
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian police arrested Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad on Tuesday, three security officials said, the latest high-profile detention in the army-backed authorities’ crackdown on the Islamist movement.
Central African Republic peace force not to fully deployed before 2014
LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – Reinforcements have begun arriving for an African peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic but the planned 3,600-strong force will not be fully deployed before 2014, an official involved in talks on the crisis said.
Germans distrust Brussels, want UK to stay in EU: poll
BERLIN (Reuters) – A majority of Germans do not trust European Union institutions and one in two want Brussels to devolve more powers to EU member states, according to a poll on Tuesday that confirmed a shift to greater Euroscepticism in Europe’s large…
Egypt detains Brotherhood spokesman Haddad: sources
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian police arrested Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad on Tuesday, three security officials said, a high-profile detention in the army-backed authorities crackdown on the Islamist movement.
Insight: Brotherhood leaders liken Egypt jail cells to graves
CAIRO (Reuters) – Murad Ali says he was put in a foul-smelling cell on death row, sleeping on a concrete floor, and denied light and human contact after his arrest in Egypt’s crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood. “It was as dark as a grave,” he wrote in…
After Angie, Uschi? – some Germans ponder life after Merkel
BERLIN (Reuters) – It is heresy even to pose the question to the chancellor’s supporters before Sunday’s general election and, if she does win a third term, the answer will remain evasive. But some Germans are asking anyway: who can succeed Angela Merk…
In public shift, Israel calls for Assad’s fall
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel wants to see Syrian President Bashar al-Assad toppled, its ambassador to the United States said on Tuesday, in a shift from its non-committal public stance on its neighbor’s civil war.
