Russia sends warships to Mediterranean as Syria tension rises
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Thursday it was sending warships to the Mediterranean, but denied it was beefing up its naval force there as Western powers prepare for military action against Syria.
Car bomb in northern Iraqi city kills 11
TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) – A car bomb killed 11 people and wounded 27 in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Thursday, police and medical sources said, in the latest of an intensifying series of attacks.
Cyprus Airways changes Beirut night flight to morning, citing Syria
NICOSIA (Reuters) – Cyprus Airways rescheduled its evening flight from Larnaca to the Lebanese capital Beirut on Thursday, citing the situation in Syria where the U.S. and its allies are considering military strikes following an alleged chemical weapon…
Cyprus Airways changes Beirut night flight to morning, citing Syria
NICOSIA (Reuters) – Cyprus Airways rescheduled its evening flight from Larnaca to the Lebanese capital Beirut on Thursday, citing the situation in Syria where the U.S. and its allies are considering military strikes following an alleged chemical weapon…
Berlusconi masterminded tax evasion plan, Italian court says
ROME (Reuters) – Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was the mastermind behind a complex system of tax evasion by his holding company Fininvest, Italy’s highest appeals court said on Thursday.
Egypt arrests senior Brotherhood politician El-Beltagi
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian police captured senior Muslim Brotherhood official Mohamed El-Beltagi on Thursday, security sources said, as they pressed on with a crackdown that has put most of the Islamist group’s top leaders behind bars.
Portugal top court rejects bill on firing public sector workers
LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s Constitutional Court on Thursday dealt a new blow to the government’s austerity efforts under an EU/IMF bailout by rejecting a bill that would have effectively allowed the state to fire public sector workers after a requal…
U.N. five permanent members to meet on Syria Thursday
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The five permanent U.N. Security Council members will meet again on Thursday to discuss an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria last week as Western powers consider possible military action against the Syrian government, …
U.S. Officials say ‘no smoking gun’ implicating Assad in chemical attack
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. and its allies have “no smoking gun” proving Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad personally ordered his forces to use chemical weapons to attack a rebel-held Damascus neighborhood, U.S. national security officials said on T…
Shelling into Rwanda came from Congo rebel areas, U.N. says
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. peacekeepers in eastern Congo have witnessed shelling into Rwandan territory from positions occupied by M23 rebels over the past week and has not observed any firing into Rwanda by the Congolese army, a U.N. spokesman sa…
