Bulgaria PM refuses to quit, says protests hamper reforms
SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria’s prime minister pledged on Friday to stay in power despite daily street protests demanding his resignation, but said his government’s lack of broad public support would delay major reforms that the Balkan nation needs.
Profile: Spanish disaster driver grew up with trains
MONFORTE DE LEMOS, Spain (Reuters) – Francisco Garzon, driver of the train that crashed at high speed in one of Spain’s worst railway accidents, grew up around trains and spent his whole life working with them.
Israel blocks EU projects in West Bank over settlement measures
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel has blocked the European Union from aiding tens of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank in retaliation for Brussels’ ban on financial assistance to Israeli organizations in the occupied territories.
United Nations gives Rwanda $400 million to fight hunger and poverty
KIGALI (Reuters) – The United Nations has pledged $400 million over five years to help Rwanda reduce poverty, hunger and disease, the government said.
Was ‘recklessness’ to blame for Spanish train crash?
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA (Reuters) – Spanish police were investigating on Friday if the driver of a train that crashed in Santiago de Compostela killing dozens had been driving at reckless speed when he took a tight curve.
Dutch embassy in Kenya warns of attack against foreigners
NAIROBI (Reuters) – The Dutch embassy in Kenya has warned of a possible attack against foreigners, shortly after police in the east African country discovered a large quantity of explosives on a bus in the capital Nairobi.
Islamists rally in Tunis to defend government
TUNIS (Reuters) – Several thousand Islamists took to the streets of Tunis on Friday to defend the Islamist Ennahda government against calls for it to resign in favor of a unity government after the assassination of a secular opposition figure.
All flights to and from Tunisia canceled on Friday
TUNIS (Reuters) – All flights to and from Tunisia will be canceled on Friday after a general strike was called by the main labor organization in protest at the killing of a prominent opposition figure, the civil aviation office said.
Sri Lanka’s president orders probe into war-time disappearances
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, under pressure from the United Nations and the West to address alleged rights abuses during a nearly three-decade war, ordered an inquiry on Friday into mass disappearances during the war, his…
Turkey to warn Syrian Kurdish group over ‘dangerous’ moves: PM
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s intelligence agency will warn the head of a Syrian Kurdish group that has seized control of areas of northern Syria near the Turkish border that it is taking “wrong and dangerous” steps, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said …
