Merkel warns against over-confidence ahead of September election
BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel warned her supporters on Saturday against complacency ahead of the September 22 election, voicing fears that three leftist parties could unexpectedly join forces to oust her center-right coalition after ballo…
Sunni leader says Hezbollah leading Lebanon into ‘Syrian fire’
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s leading Sunni Muslim politician Saad al-Hariri accused Hezbollah on Saturday of dragging the country deeper into Syria’s civil war after the Shi’ite militant group’s leader said he was ready to go to Syria himself to fight….
Egyptian youth leader backs army in battle with Brotherhood
CAIRO (Reuters) – Mahmoud Badr, the activist whose petition campaign helped to bring down Egypt’s Islamist president, says the bloodshed that has followed is a high but acceptable price for saving the nation from the Muslim Brotherhood.
Though silent, Israel remains worried by Egypt upheaval
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel has looked on at upheaval in Egypt largely in silence, keen to avoid disrupting strategic security cooperation with a military it sees as critical to curbing attacks by Islamist militants in neighboring Sinai, officials and…
Egypt is waging “war” against extremism-presidency
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt is facing “war by the forces of extremism” and will confront it with “security measures within the framework of law,” Mostafa Hegazy, adviser to Egypt’s interim president said.
Bomb hits Iraq’s main commodity port, traffic unaffected
BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) – A truck bomb exploded at Iraq’s main commodities port near the oil-exporting southern city of Basra, wounding four people on Saturday, but officials said shipping traffic at the Umm Qasr docks was not affected.
Turkey’s Erdogan says Kurds have not withdrawn as agreed
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has said the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has failed to withdraw its fighters from Turkey as agreed, a condition for Kurdish rights to be expanded as part of a peace process.
Mursi supporters exchange fire with security forces in mosque
CAIRO (Reuters) – Supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi exchanged gunfire with security forces inside a Cairo mosque on Saturday, three Reuters witnesses said.
Traffic unaffected at Iraq’s Umm Qasr port after truck bomb
BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) – Shipping traffic was unaffected by a truck bomb at Iraq’s southern Umm Qasr commodities port on Saturday, a maritime transport official said.
Gunmen, police exchange fire outside Cairo mosque
CAIRO (Reuters) – Gunmen and members of the Egyptian security forces exchanged fire on Saturday in a Cairo square where dozens of supporters of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi were shot dead the day before, Reuters journalists said.
