Chemicals weapons watchdog OPCW to win Nobel Peace Prize, NRK says
OSLO (Reuters) – The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which is overseeing the destruction of Syria’s chemicals weapon arsenal, it set to win the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Norwegian public broadcaster NRK said.
Afghan President Karzai’s brothers to offer him role if elected
KABUL (Reuters) – As President Hamid Karzai’s brothers began a campaign this week to take power in war-shattered Afghanistan, they left open the prospect that the incumbent will be able to use family ties to remain in government after his second term e…
Israeli man killed in West Bank attack
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli man was killed and his wife injured in what appeared to be an attack by Palestinian militants outside their home in a West Bank settlement overnight Friday, Israeli officials said on Friday.
Malala Yousafzai speaks of Nobel hopes
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girl’s education, spoke on Thursday of the possibility of winning this year’s Nobel Peace Prize and said she might like to be Pakistan…
Syrian rebels killed 190 civilians in August dawn raid: HRW
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian rebels killed at least 190 civilians and took more than 200 hostage during an offensive in Latakia province in August, Human Rights Watch said on Friday, in what it calls the first evidence of crimes against humanity by opposi…
Mother of jailed U.S. missionary in North Korea to see son
SEATTLE (Reuters) – The mother of jailed U.S. missionary Kenneth Bae has arrived in North Korea to visit her ailing son, who was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in May on charges of state subversion, his family said on Thursday.
Sunni rebels, Shi’ite militia clash near Damascus shrine
AMMAN (Reuters) – Fighting flared on Thursday between Syrian Sunni rebels and foreign militias near a main Shi’ite shrine on the southern edge of Damascus, opposition activists said, in an increasingly internationalized conflict deepening Middle East s…
Iran up for U.N. disarmament panel post, U.S. objects
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Iran is running for the vice chairmanship of the U.N. Disarmament Commission, which the United States said on Thursday was unacceptable in light of Tehran’s many breaches of Security Council demands that it halt its controver…
Morocco’s king names new ministers, Islamists lose ground
RABAT (Reuters) – Morocco’s King Mohamed named 19 new ministers on Thursday after the prime minister reached a deal to form a new coalition that weakens the ruling Islamists who are trying to push through unpopular reforms to subsidies and the pensions…
Iraq says executes 42 ‘terrorists’, including woman
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq executed 42 people, including a woman, for mass killings and other “terrorism” offences over the past week, the justice ministry and the United Nations said on Thursday after a surge in sectarian violence.
