Algeria’s Bouteflika leaves France to return home: airport source
PARIS (Reuters) – Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has been in a French hospital since April, left France on Tuesday to return to Algeria, an airport source said.
Brotherhood official dismisses talk of reconciliation in Egypt
CAIRO (Reuters) – A senior figure in Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood said on Tuesday that talk of national reconciliation among rival parties and groups was “lies”.
Thousands of Greeks join strike against public sector layoffs
ATHENS (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Greek workers walked off the job on Tuesday and rallied in front of parliament in a noisy protest against government plans to fire public sector employees to satisfy foreign lenders.
Air force colonel shot dead in eastern Libyan city
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – A Libyan air force colonel was shot dead in the eastern city of Derna, a military spokesman said on Tuesday, an area of the North African country plagued by attacks on security officials.
Egypt presidency says expects Islamists to join reconciliation
CAIRO (Reuters) – A spokesman for Egypt’s interim president said on Tuesday authorities expected Islamist movements to join in national reconciliation, including the Muslim Brotherhood whose Mohamed Mursi was toppled as president by the army on July 3….
Man linked to Norwegian mass killer Breivik arrested in France
PARIS (Reuters) – A neo-Nazi linked to Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was arrested in southwestern France on Tuesday after his wife bought four rifles, raising suspicions he could turn to violence, the Paris prosecutor’s office said.
Egypt arrests more than 400 people over Cairo clashes
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian authorities have arrested 401 people over clashes that took place in Cairo overnight when supporters of Mohamed Mursi battled security forces and the ousted president’s opponents, the state news agency MENA said on Tuesday.
British PM’s party in joint poll lead for first time in over a year
LONDON (Reuters) – Support for British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party has surged, according to an opinion poll published on Tuesday that put it in joint first place with the opposition Labour Party for the first time in over a year.
Israel attorney general to probe Frenkel’s HK cologne incident
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Jacob Frenkel’s return as head of the Israeli central bank hit a new hurdle on Tuesday when the Justice Ministry said the attorney general would investigate a suspected shoplifting incident involving Frenkel in 2006.
Egypt’s Saleh to return as investment minister
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s former investment minister Osama Saleh said on Tuesday he would take up the same post in the country’s transitional government.
