Dozens escape from Tunisian prison in sign of insecurity
TUNIS (Reuters) – Forty-nine inmates escaped from a Tunisian prison after overpowering guards, a senior official said on Monday, in a further sign of faltering security as a political crisis over popular discontent with Islamist rule festers.
Chinese city tightens property rules in sign authorities getting tough
BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese city has toughened rules on house buying as it wrestles with one of the country’s highest rates of house price inflation, in a sign that authorities may be injecting more urgency into a troubled campaign to cool home price…
Improvised bomb wounds two at Cairo police station
CAIRO (Reuters) – An improvised bomb exploded at a police station in downtown Cairo on Monday, wounding two workers, the state news agency said.
HEMP Party has high ambitions in Australian election
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s HEMP Party formally launched its election campaign on Monday with a call for cannabis to be legalized for personal and medical use, just as it is now for industrial purposes.
Iran frees six Slovak paragliders after spying accusations
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Six out of eight Slovak citizens detained in Iran since May on suspicion of spying after taking photographs while paragliding have been released and returned home, Prime Minister Robert Fico said.
Senior Turkish envoy survives bomb attack in Iraq
ANKARA (Reuters) – A roadside bomb struck the convoy of Turkey’s consul general in Iraq on Monday, a Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman said, but there were no casualties.
Thai prosecutors to issue arrest warrant for Red Bull heir
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thai prosecutors said on Monday they will issue an arrest warrant for an heir of the Red Bull energy drink creator who failed to show up to hear charges against him in a fatal hit-and-run case that sparked nationwide outrage.
Former Nazi guard goes on trial for murder of resistance fighter
BERLIN (Reuters) – A 92-year-old who served in the Waffen-SS, Adolf Hitler’s elite Nazi troops, goes on trial on Monday in the western city of Hagen on charges of having shot in the back and killed a Dutch resistance fighter at the end of World War Two…
Iran denies ex-president said Assad’s forces used poison gas
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s foreign ministry on Monday denied reported comments by ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani accusing the Syrian government of using poison gas in the country’s civil war, saying the remarks had been “distorted”.
Russia sending spy ship to Mediterranean: Interfax
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia is sending a reconnaissance ship to the eastern Mediterranean, Interfax news agency reported on Monday, as the United States prepares for a possible military strike in Syria.
