Israel bombs pro-Assad Lebanon militants after rocket attack
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s air force on Friday bombed a militant base in Lebanon used by allies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and radical Islamists in retaliation for a rare cross-border rocket salvo a day earlier, Israeli and Lebanese offici…
Obama says Syria situation ‘of grave concern’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said in an interview on Friday that the international community needs to find out more about whether chemical weapons have been used in Syria, and called on the Assad government to allow a full investigatio…
Analysis: Iran’s supreme leader does not rule supreme
DUBAI (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama has twice written to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei believing that he, not the president, holds ultimate power in the Islamic Republic and the key to unlocking the dispute over Tehran’s nucle…
Polish PM Tusk wins party leadership vote after strong challenge
WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk won a party leadership election with nearly 80 percent of the vote, but a stronger-than-expected showing by his challenger pointed to growing dissatisfaction in the party he co-founded.
Brahimi: Alleged chemical weapon attack shows Syria peace talks urgent
GENEVA (Reuters) – Arab League-United Nations envoy Lakhdar Brahimi believes that the alleged chemical weapon attack in Syria this week should speed up work towards an international peace conference, his spokeswoman said on Friday.
Russia, U.S. want objective probe in Syria: Moscow
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia and the United States agree an objective investigation is needed into allegations that troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad launched a chemical weapons attack in Syria, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
Syrian activists say trying to get samples from chemical strike to U.N.
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian activists say they are smuggling out body tissue samples from victims of an alleged chemical weapons attack outside Damascus and are trying to get them to a team of United Nations inspectors staying in a hotel a few miles away…
Brahimi: Alleged chemical weapon attack shows Syria peace talks urgent
GENEVA (Reuters) – Arab League-United Nations envoy Lakhdar Brahimi believes that the alleged chemical weapon attack in Syria this week should speed up work towards an international peace conference, his spokeswoman said on Friday.
China says no side should pre-judge Syria chemical probe
BEIJING (Reuters) – China said on Friday that no side should rush to pre-judge the results of any probe by U.N. chemical weapons experts in Syria, after Syria’s opposition accused government forces of using such weapons in an attack on civilians.
Potholes on airport runway spell trouble for Nepal tourism
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal has asked foreign airlines not to land heavily-loaded wide-body aircraft at the Himalayan nation’s international airport, aviation authorities said on Friday, after potholes were found on the runway before the annual influx …
