Iraqi PM visits Kurdistan to try to ease crisis
ARBIL/BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki visited the Kurdistan region on Sunday for the first time in more than two years, in a symbolic step towards resolving a long-running dispute over oil and land that has strained Iraq’s…
Iran ups cyber attacks on Israeli computers: Netanyahu
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran and its Palestinian and Lebanese allies on Sunday of carrying out “non-stop” cyber attacks on major computer systems in his country.
British police say fire at London Islamic school suspicious
LONDON (Reuters) – A fire at an Islamic boarding school in London late on Saturday night is being treated as suspicious, the police said, just days after a mosque was burnt down in another part of the British capital in a suspected arson attack.
UK says eavesdropping is legal, defends U.S. spy links
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said eavesdropping by its GCHQ security agency was legal and no threat to privacy but would not confirm or deny reports it received data from a secret U.S. intelligence program.
Italian PM hopes local election will strengthen hand
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta hopes to lift his bruised center-left party in local elections that conclude on Monday, strengthening his hold over an uneasy coalition government with its traditional rivals on the center-right.
Despite the politics, Chinese investment in U.S. grows
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) – The biggest-ever Chinese acquisition of a U.S. company faces hurdles in Washington from lawmakers and regulators, but in much of America, Chinese investment is quietly booming.
Evangelical Christians gain political clout in Catholic Brazil
BRASILIA (Reuters) – When televangelist Silas Malafaia gathered 40,000 followers outside Brazil’s Congress this week, it wasn’t just to raise their arms to the sky and praise the Lord.
Israel aims to stay out of Syria conflict despite Golan friction
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel aims to stay out of Syria’s civil war, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, despite violence eroding security on the Golan Heights border area.
Suicide bomber kills at least seven at Baghdad checkpoint
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A suicide bomber blew up his explosive-packed car at a police checkpoint outside a Shi’ite district in northwest Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least seven people and wounding 16 more, police officials said.
Kabul demands British forces transfer prisoners within weeks
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded on Saturday that Britain hand over within two weeks more than 80 prisoners of war being held in a British base in the south, saying the detention was against Afghan law and a breach of sovereignt…
