Egypt interim PM defends crackdown on Mursi supporters
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s army-backed interim prime minister defended the government’s decision on Wednesday to order the crushing of camps of supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi, saying the authorities had no choice but to act.
Hezbollah says it struck Israeli troops in Lebanon
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah claimed responsibility on Wednesday for explosions which wounded four Israeli soldiers who infiltrated into southern Lebanon last week.
U.S. condemns killings of Egypt protesters, Turkey wants U.N. action
(Reuters) – The United States on Wednesday condemned a bloody government crackdown on protesters in Egypt that killed at least 149 people and Turkey urged the U.N. Security Council and Arab League to act quickly to stop a “massacre”.
Central African Republic on brink of collapse: U.N.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The Central African Republic is on the brink of collapse and the crisis is threatening to spread beyond its borders, senior U.N. officials said on Wednesday as they urged the Security Council to help fund and support an Afric…
Kerry: Egypt violence ‘deplorable,’ Egyptians must ‘step back’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States strongly condemns Egypt’s violence, calls for the state of emergency to end as soon as possible and urges all sides to seek a political solution, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday.
Egypt violence kills 41 in Minya province
CAIRO (Reuters) – Forty-one people were killed in the Egyptian province of Minya on Wednesday in violence ignited by the security forces’ assault on protest camps set up by supporters of the deposed president, Mohamed Mursi, Health Ministry officials s…
Merkel kicks off campaign with soothing message to Germans
SELIGENSTADT, Germany (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel launched her re-election campaign on Wednesday by presenting herself to voters in this mediaeval town in the heart of Germany as a safe pair of hands who would steer the country through crisis …
Mursi supporters call for protests against army
CAIRO (Reuters) – A grouping of supporters of deposed president Mohamed Mursi called on Egyptians on Wednesday to stage nationwide protests against what it called an army coup.
High chance of cyclone in northwest Caribbean Sea: NHC
(Reuters) – A broad area of low pressure in the northwestern Caribbean Sea has a high 60 percent chance of becoming a tropical cyclone during the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Wednesday.
Egyptian police arrest senior Brotherhood politicians
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian police detained senior Muslim Brotherhood officials Mohamed El-Beltagi and Essam El-Erian on Wednesday, a security official said, after the police forcibly broke up Brotherhood protest camps in Cairo.
