Security tight as Iraqis vote in Sunni-dominated provinces
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – An Iraqi electoral official was killed in a roadside bombing on Thursday, police said, as two Sunni Muslim-dominated provinces went to the polls under tight security.
India may have to wait to join sensitive nuclear export body
VIENNA (Reuters) – Some states still appear to be skeptical about letting nuclear-armed India into an influential body regulating sensitive atomic trade, diplomats said on Thursday, suggesting Indian membership may not be imminent.
Palestinian children tortured, used as shields by Israel: U.N.
GENEVA (Reuters) – A United Nations human rights body accused Israeli forces on Thursday of mistreating Palestinian children, including by torturing those in custody and using others as human shields.
Pope blames speculation, corruption for ‘scandalous’ food crisis
ROME (Reuters) – Pope Francis said on Thursday that financial speculation and corruption were keeping millions of people in hunger and the financial crisis could not be used as an alibi for failing to help the poor.
Insight: Pakistan influence on Taliban commanders helped Afghan breakthrough
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s powerful military has played a central role in convincing Afghanistan’s Taliban rebels to hold talks with the United States, U.S. and Pakistani officials said, a shift from widely held views in Washington that it was ob…
Egypt court orders Mubarak PM Nazif freed
CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian court ordered the release of former prime minister Ahmed Nazif on Thursday, because of a limit on pretrial detention in a corruption case for which he had been held since the revolution that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
Somali Islamists threaten more carnage after attack on U.N. base
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia’s Islamist al Shabaab rebel group threatened to keep attacking “disbelievers” without respite, a day after launching a deadly assault against the United Nations in the capital Mogadishu.
Sweden jails Rwandan for life for role in 1994 genocide
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – A Swedish court on Thursday sentenced a man of Rwandan origin to life imprisonment for his role in the 1994 genocide in the African county, the first such case in the Nordic state.
Italy PM sees no impact on government from Berlusconi trials
ROME (Reuters) – Italian center-left Prime Minister Enrico Letta declared on Thursday that a series of criminal trials involving center-right leader Silvio Berlusconi would have no impact on the functioning of the coalition government between their two…
Lebanese president urges Hezbollah to pull out of Syria
BEIRUT (Reuters) – President Michel Suleiman has called on the Lebanese Shi’ite Muslim Hezbollah movement to pull its guerrillas out of Syria, saying any further involvement in its neighbor’s civil war would fuel instability in Lebanon.
