Somalia strikes deal with former Islamist over port city
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Somalia’s central government agreed on Wednesday to recognize a former Islamist commander as the interim leader of the southern Juba region, in a deal that could help end months of clan fighting that has killed dozens of civilia…
Evidence points to use of chemical weapons by Assad forces: NATO
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Wednesday information from a variety of sources pointed to President Bashar al-Assad’s forces being responsible for the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
UK national security council unanimously backs action on Syria
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s National Security Council unanimously backed action against Syria in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday, a day after he set out the case for a targeted military s…
Libya PM says seeks peaceful end to oil strikes
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s government is seeking a peaceful way to end oil strikes which have crippled its crude exports, Prime Minister Ali Zeidan told a news conference on Wednesday.
Tanzania pledges to end child labor in gold mining
DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – The Tanzanian government said it was committed to stamping out child labor in small-scale gold mines after a U.S. rights group said thousands of minors were at risk from working in dangerous conditions.
U.N. experts return to Damascus hotel after visit to poison gas site
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The team of United Nations chemical weapons experts returned to their hotel in central Damascus on Wednesday after inspecting the scenes of an apparent poison gas attack on several suburbs outside the Syrian capital last week, a Reut…
Iran boosts advanced uranium enrichment capacity: IAEA
VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran has installed about 1,000 advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges and is set to test them, a U.N. nuclear report showed, a development likely to worry Western powers hoping for a change of course under the country’s new presiden…
Iraq says on high alert for expected strike on Syria
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq has put its security forces on high alert ahead of an expected international strike on neighboring Syria, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Wednesday.
Iran’s Khamenei says U.S. intervention in Syria would be disaster
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday U.S. intervention in Syria would be “a disaster for the region”, the ISNA state news agency reported, as Western powers made plans to hit Damascus over a chemical weapons…
Weapons inspectors need four days in Syria to conclude probe: U.N. chief
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – United Nations inspectors, in Syria to determine whether forces have used chemical weapons in the civil war, need four days to conclude their investigation and time to analyze the findings, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said …
