Hezbollah calls for calm after Iranian embassy bombing
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A Hezbollah leader appealed for calm on Wednesday and an easing of sectarian tensions in Lebanon, a day after twin suicide bombings struck the Iranian embassy in Beirut.
Georgia’s new premier says will seek thaw with Russia
TBILISI (Reuters) – Georgia’s new premier said on Wednesday his government would stick to the ex-Soviet republic’s pro-Western course but also try to mend relations with Russia, Tbilisi’s old Soviet master and adversary in a five-day war in 2008.
Bombs kill 23 in Baghdad
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Seven bombs exploded across Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 23 people and wounding scores, police and medical sources said, part of the worst wave of violence to hit Iraq in at least five years.
Police, protesters clash in Rome during French president visit
ROME (Reuters) – Protesters threw smoke bombs and clashed with police in central Rome on Wednesday while Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta met French President Francois Hollande in the capital.
Bombs kill 23 in Baghdad
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Seven bombs exploded across Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 23 people and wounding scores, police and medical sources said, part of the worst wave of violence to hit Iraq in at least five years.
Survivors of migrant shipwreck walk away from Rome center
ROME (Reuters) – More than half of the survivors of a shipwreck near the Italian island of Lampedusa last month which killed more than 360 migrants have disappeared from the center in Rome where they had been living, city officials said on Wednesday.
Nigeria extends emergency rule in violence-hit states
ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s house of representatives on Wednesday approved a six month extension of a state of emergency in three northeastern states where the military is battling Islamist militants.
Bosnian court trims sentence for U.S. embassy gunman to 15 years
SARAJEVO (Reuters) – A Bosnian appeals court on Wednesday trimmed the prison sentence given to an Islamist gunman after he apologized for opening fire on the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo in 2011, seriously wounding a police officer.
Suicide attack stems Assad advance near Syria-Lebanon border
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Two suicide bombers from al Qaeda-linked groups blew themselves up at an army post in the Syrian town of al-Nabak on Wednesday, halting an advance by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces near the Syrian-Lebanese border, activists said….
Saudi Arabia condemns deadly Beirut blast as cowardly
DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia condemned a suicide attack that killed 23 people in Beirut, including an Iranian cultural attache, on Tuesday as “cowardly terrorist bombings”, the official SPA news agency said on Wednesday.
