Tunisian government and opponents to start talks Saturday
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s ruling Islamists and their secular opponents will start three weeks of negotiations on Saturday to allow the government to step down and make way for a caretaker cabinet until elections, a labor union mediating the talks sai…
U.S. sanctions Rwanda, others over child soldiers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States moved to block U.S. military aid to Rwanda because of its support for the M23 Congolese rebel group believed to use child soldiers, the State Department said on Thursday.
Israel to run for U.N. Security Council seat for 2019-20
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Israel said on Thursday it plans to run for a rotating seat on the U.N. Security Council for the time ever for 2019-2020, although U.N. diplomats said it will not be easy for the Jewish state to win.
Netanyahu says Iranian missiles could eventually reach U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In his latest warning about Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that Iran was working on intercontinental ballistic missiles that could one day hit the United States.
Thousands who protested peacefully languish in Syrian jails: HRW
AMMAN (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people who peacefully demonstrated against President Bashar al-Assad are languishing in Syrian jails and are subjected to an apparent policy of torture, according to New York-based Human Rights Watch.
Leader of Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn held in custody before trial
ATHENS (Reuters) – The leader of Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party was remanded in custody on Thursday pending trial on criminal charges, the first time an elected party chief has been put behind bars since a military coup nearly five decades ago.
Hundreds dead, missing as migrant boat sinks off Italy
PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) – More than 300 people drowned or were feared dead after a boat packed with African migrants caught fire and sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Thursday, one of the worst disasters of Europe’s chronic immigrat…
Madagascar crowd burn two Europeans to death over “organ trafficking”
PARIS/ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) – A crowd burnt two Europeans to death on a tourist island in Madagascar and lynched a local man because they suspected them of trafficking human organs after a dead child was found on a beach, police said.
Guinea opposition quits electoral commission, rejecting early vote count
CONAKRY (Reuters) – Guinea’s opposition parties pulled their delegates out of the national electoral commission on Thursday after rejecting some provisional results from Sunday’s parliamentary election, meant to cap a transition to democracy.
Syria rebels try to end infighting near Turkish border
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Six powerful Syrian rebel groups on Thursday demanded al Qaeda-linked militants and rival insurgents end clashes that have escalated infighting in a strategic northern border area.
