Showdown looms in Venezuela over decree powers plan
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan politicians traded insults at the weekend with a showdown looming in the National Assembly over President Nicolas Maduro’s plans to ask for fast-track decree powers he says he needs to combat corruption.
Liberia booming but still needs peacekeepers: president
MONROVIA (Reuters) – Investments in mining, agriculture and oil will push Liberia’s economic growth into double-digits within five years, but it will still need U.N. peacekeepers to help keep order until 2017, the president said.
Italy PM says government survival crucial to economic recovery
RIMINI, Italy (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta on Sunday warned that the collapse of his government would undermine economic recovery and anger voters after local media reported center-right leader Silvio Berlusconi was poised to pull th…
Army chief to Mursi supporters: Egypt has room for everyone
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, said in a speech to military and police officers on Sunday that his message to the supporters of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi is that “there is room for everyone in Egypt”.
Growing number of U.S. lawmakers urge suspension of Egyptian aid
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A growing bipartisan chorus of U.S. lawmakers said on Sunday that the United States should suspend its $1.5 billion in military and economic aid to Egypt following a violent crackdown on protesters that has left nearly 800 dead.
Insight: Egypt seen as graveyard of Islamist ambitions for power
BEIRUT (Reuters) – As the army ruthlessly crushes the Muslim Brotherhood on the streets of Cairo, having swept away its elected president, Egypt is being painted as the graveyard of the Arab Spring and of Islamist hopes of shaping the region’s future.
Egypt government says 79 people died in violence Saturday: report
CAIRO (Reuters) – Seventy-nine people died across Egypt on Saturday during political violence and 549 were wounded, the state news agency MENA said on Sunday, quoting government figures.
Fracking protesters march in British rural idyll
BALCOMBE (Reuters) – British opposition to shale gas extraction flared up in the tiny village of Balcombe on Sunday as hundreds marched on an oil exploration site in protest at the drilling process known as ‘fracking’.
Libyan interior minister resigns over ‘interference’
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s Interior Minister Mohammed Khalifa al-Sheikh stepped down on Sunday in protest against what he saw as interference in his work by the prime minister and parliament, a lawmaker said.
Russia readies tighter customs if Ukraine signs EU deal: report
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia is preparing tighter customs controls with Ukraine in case Kiev makes the “suicidal” move of signing an association agreement with the European Union, an aide to President Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying on Sunday.
