Destruction of Syrian chemical weapons begins: mission
BEIRUT (Reuters) – International experts began overseeing the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal on Sunday, said an official from the mission that has averted a U.S. strike but could rob President Bashar al-Assad of his most feared weapon….
Clashes across Egypt kill 51, more protests called
CAIRO (Reuters) – At least 51 people were killed in clashes in Egyptian cities on Sunday, security sources said, after opponents and supporters of deposed president Mohamad Mursi took to the streets in one of the bloodiest days since the army seized po…
New York case offers insight into secret war against Somali militants
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For years before Saturday’s unsuccessful raid in Somalia to capture a top al Shabaab militant, Washington had waged a secret law enforcement and spy war against the group, which claimed responsibility for last month’s deadly assa…
Netanyahu faces ridicule from Iranians online over “jeans” comment
DUBAI (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have sought to win over Iranians in an interview with British Persian-language television, but a casual assertion that they were banned from wearing jeans won only gentle ridicule from som…
Suicide bomb attacks on Iraqi school, Shi’ite pilgrims, kill 29
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – A suicide bomber drove a truck packed with explosives into the playground of a primary school in northern Iraq and blew himself up, killing 14 children and their headmaster on Sunday, police and medical sources said.
German embassy employee shot dead outside store in Yemen
SANAA (Reuters) – Gunmen shot dead a German security guard employed by the German embassy in Yemen’s capital on Sunday as he was leaving a supermarket, Yemeni security officials said, in an attack they said bore the hallmarks of al Qaeda.
Nigerian forces clash with Islamists, 20 people killed
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – At least 20 people were killed when Islamist group Boko Haram attacked a town in northeast Nigeria, triggering clashes with troops stationed there, the military said on Sunday.
German Greens mull new identity and coalition with Merkel
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Greens will elect a new, more centrist parliamentary leader and hold talks with Angela Merkel’s conservatives this week to explore prospects for what would be a landmark coalition with their former political arch enemies.
President Maduro has ‘bankrupted’ Venezuela: opposition
CARACAS (Reuters) – Opposition leader Henrique Capriles accused Venezuela’s “incompetent” President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday of bankrupting the nation in an increasingly radical blame-game over the OPEC member’s economic distortions.
Pakistan’s military chief says he will retire in November
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The head of Pakistan’s powerful military said on Sunday he would retire in November as planned, in an announcement many believe will help bolster the fragile democracy of the coup-prone nation.
