In turnaround, ruling Tunisia Islamists will meet rivals
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s governing Islamist party Ennahda switched course on Sunday and agreed to meet with opposition parties to seek a consensus on resolving the country’s worst political crisis since its 2011 Arab Spring revolution.
UK detains partner of journalist linked to Snowden
LONDON (Reuters) – British authorities used anti-terrorism powers to detain the partner of a journalist with close links to Edward Snowden, the fugitive former U.S. spy agency contractor, as he passed through London’s Heathrow airport on Sunday.
Insight: North Korea’s Kim tries new tack with defectors – being nice
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is taking a new approach to defectors who have fled his impoverished and repressive state, promising they will not be harmed if they come home, and even offering cash rewards, according to some in the e…
U.N. chemical weapons inspectors to start work in Syria on Monday
DAMASCUS (Reuters) – A team of U.N. chemical weapons experts have arrived in Damascus and will start work on Monday to investigate the possible use of chemical weapons in Syria’s civil war.
Okinawa shows vulnerability of Japan PM’s popular appeal
NAHA, Japan (Reuters) – Masatoshi Onaga says Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is out of touch with Okinawa, one of Japan’s poorest prefectures and the reluctant host to half the U.S. forces in the country.
Egypt’s Brotherhood cries foul over prison deaths
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, fighting for its political survival, has accused security forces of killing dozens of detained Islamists, upping the pressure in a crisis that has rocked the Arab world’s most populous state.
EU weighs aid, commercial links with Egypt
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union governments will this week question how to best use their economic ties with Egypt to pressure Cairo’s army-backed rulers into finding a peaceful compromise with supporters of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi…
Ex-rebel sworn in as Central African Republic president
BANGUI (Reuters) – Former rebel leader Michel Djotodia was formally sworn in as the Central African Republic’s president on Sunday, starting the clock on his interim administration’s 18-month deadline to restore order and organize elections.
Saudi Arabia warns against pressing Egypt on crackdown
PARIS (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia on Sunday warned the West against putting pressure on Egypt’s military-backed government to halt a crackdown on supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.
Fate of Polish finance minister not known until November: deputy PM
WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will not decide whether to replace his finance minister until November, at the earliest, Deputy Prime Minister Janusz Piechocinski said on Sunday.
