Blast hits Syrian port city of Latakia
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A loud explosion was heard near a military site in the Syrian port city of Latakia on Wednesday, opposition groups and state media said, but the cause of the blast was unclear.
UK says soldier deaths’ court ruling will hit combat missions
LONDON (Reuters) – The British government warned on Wednesday that future combat operations could become more difficult after a court ruled that families of three soldiers killed in Iraq could sue the military for failing to protect troops on active du…
Pirates attack ship off Nigeria, kidnap four: sources
ABUJA (Reuters) – Pirates in speedboats attacked an oil supply vessel and kidnapped four Indian and Polish crew members in increasingly dangerous waters off Nigeria’s coast last week, two security sources said on Wednesday.
Bulgaria removes state security boss after protests
SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria’s parliament dismissed a powerful media figure from his post as head of national security on Wednesday, hoping the move will put an end to protest rallies against the country’s fragile three-week-old government.
Suicide bomber embraces and kills Sunni politician in Iraq
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – A suicide bomber blew himself up as he embraced a Sunni Muslim political leader in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing the man and four of his family a day before elections in the area.
Rohani once approved of hiding Iran atomic work
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Years before he became Iran’s president-elect, Hassan Rohani spoke approvingly about concealing his nation’s nuclear program and said that when Pakistan got atomic bombs and Brazil began enriching uranium, “the world started …
Internet monitoring must have proper limits, Merkel tells Obama
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel told U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday that government monitoring of Internet communications needed to remain within proper limits.
Mozambique’s Renamo threatens to paralyse coal export line
MAPUTO (Reuters) – The opposition party Renamo, a former guerrilla organization, threatened on Wednesday to paralyse the only railway line leading from Mozambique’s northwest coalfields.
Dozing prince a cult hero for disenchanted Czechs
PRAGUE (Reuters) – It was a moment of high drama: the Czech prime minister stood up in parliament to try to salvage a political career torpedoed by the arrest of an aide, and Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg, sitting next to him, had dozed off.
China completes Internet, phone monitoring scheme for Tibet
BEIJING (Reuters) – China has completed a monitoring scheme in restive Tibet that requires all telephone and internet users to register under their real names, state media said on Wednesday, as part of a campaign to crack down on what officials describ…
