Tunisia Islamists ready to hand over power, see spring election
TUNIS (Reuters) – A black and white photograph on Rached Ghannouchi’s desk shows him as a young activist proclaiming the birth of a Tunisian Islamist movement that three decades later would win the first elections after the Arab uprisings.
Air raids and clashes near Syrian chemical weapons site
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian air force warplanes bombarded rebel-held targets close to a major chemical weapons facility on Friday in fighting that highlights the perils facing an international mission to eliminate President Bashar al-Assad’s chemical ars…
Sudanese activists protest in central Khartoum
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Around 150 Sudanese pro-democracy activists and Islamists protested outside Khartoum’s Grand Mosque after Friday prayers in the latest of a wave of anti-government demonstrations.
Russia refuses to bail two Britons held for Greenpeace protest
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Two Britons held in Russia for a Greenpeace protest were ordered to remain in pre-trial detention on Friday, a defeat for the first of the many foreigners among the 30 detainees to seek bail.
‘Death to America’ chants challenge Iran president’s diplomacy
DUBAI (Reuters) – While Iranian President Hassan Rouhani tries to ease friction with the United States, chants of “death to America” on Friday may deepen doubts in the West that Tehran is ready for a deal as talks on its nuclear program resume next wee…
Iran’s defiant nuclear expansion raises bar for Geneva talks
VIENNA (Reuters) – When the U.N. Security Council first imposed sanctions on Iran in 2006 to try to make it halt its nuclear activity, the Islamic state had a nascent uranium enrichment program with a couple of hundred centrifuges it was testing.
U.S. fiscal standoff gets nod in G20 communique: French finance minister
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Finance ministers from the G20 leading economies have included a sentence about the U.S. fiscal situation in the communique to be delivered Friday after they conclude their meeting here, France’s finance minister, Pierre Moscovic…
Four people wounded in Yemen suicide attack; official shot dead
ADEN (Reuters) – A suspected al Qaeda militant blew himself up on Friday in a market in Lahj province in south Yemen, killing himself and wounding four people, a security official said.
Egypt police fire teargas on pro- and anti-Mursi crowds
CAIRO (Reuters) – Police fired teargas in Egypt’s coastal city of Alexandria on Friday to break up clashes between opponents and supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, security sources said.
British PM Cameron urges more investment in Northern Ireland
BELFAST (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron urged business on Friday to look beyond Northern Ireland’s troubled past and sporadic outbreaks of violence by investing there.
