Portugal PM: no need to change constitution for bailout drive
LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s constitutional court is complicating Lisbon’s already fraught attempts to meet its EU/IMF bailout goals but Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho said on Sunday he had no intention of limiting its power by changing the consti…
Syrians relieved, disappointed at Obama strike delay
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Senegal’s President Sall fires PM Abdoul Mbaye
DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegal’s President Macky Sall fired Prime Minister Abdoul Mbaye on Sunday just over a year after naming the former banker to head the government, an official said.
Iranian agency drops Rafsanjani remarks critical of Syrian government
DUBAI (Reuters) – An Iranian news agency quoted former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani as saying Syria’s government had attacked its own people with chemical weapons, but later replaced the report with a different version that did not attribute blam…
Analysis: Libya protests threaten stability as oil output dives
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – No end is in sight to the worst disruption to Libya’s oil industry since the civil war in 2011 as armed groups, security guards and oil workers with tribal loyalties shut down pipelines and oil ports across the country.
Attackers torch Saudi religious police building
DUBAI (Reuters) – The entrance of a Saudi religious police building has been set on fire, Saudi media reported on Sunday, in a rare attack on a force criticized by the public for its heavy-handed tactics.
Saudi Arabia says it backs U.S. strikes if Syrian people do
CAIRO (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia said on Sunday it was time for the world to do everything it could to prevent aggression against the Syrian people, and that it would back a U.S. strike on Syria if the Syrian people did.
Roadside bomb kills nine Pakistan soldiers on Afghan border
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) – At least nine Pakistani servicemen were killed on Sunday when a roadside bomb hit an army convoy passing through the troubled region of North Waziristan near Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, security sources said.
Assad says Syria can confront external aggression
BEIRUT (Reuters) – President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday Syria was capable of confronting any external aggression and that threats of a U.S. strike would not discourage the country from a fight against what it described as “terrorism”.
More than 110,000 Syrians killed in conflict: rights group
BEIRUT (Reuters) – More than 110,000 people have died in Syria’s 2 1/2-year-old conflict, and more than half of those killed were civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday.
