Iran’s Khamenei says U.S. intervention in Syria would be disaster
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday U.S. intervention in Syria would be “a disaster for the region”, the ISNA state news agency reported, as Western powers made plans to hit Damascus over a chemical weapons…
Weapons inspectors need four days in Syria to conclude probe: U.N. chief
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – United Nations inspectors, in Syria to determine whether forces have used chemical weapons in the civil war, need four days to conclude their investigation and time to analyze the findings, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said …
Syria says ‘terrorists’ will strike Europe with chemical weapons
DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syria’s deputy foreign minister said on Wednesday that the United States, Britain and France helped “terrorists” use chemical weapons in Syria, and that the same groups would soon use them against Europe.
Israel deploys full missile defenses against Syria: radio
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel is deploying all of its missile defenses as a precaution against possible Syrian retaliatory attacks should Western powers carry out threatened strikes on Syria, Israeli Army Radio said on Wednesday.
Iraq says on high alert for expected strike on Syria
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq has put its security forces on high alert ahead of an expected international strike on Syria, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Wednesday.
Attack under way on Polish military base in east Afghanistan
KABUL (Reuters) – An explosion rocked a base shared by Polish and Afghan forces in a restive eastern Afghan province on Wednesday and a gun battle was under way, a Reuters witness said.
U.N., Congo army pound M23 rebel positions near Goma
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – United Nations helicopters and artillery supported the Congolese army in an attack on M23 rebel positions near the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday, an army spokesman said….
Army rule divides Egypt’s once-united worker heroes
EL-MAHALLA EL-KUBRA (Reuters) – The workers at the Misr Spinning and Weaving Company once locked arms long enough to wring pay rises out of the Egyptian state, and inspired the pro-democracy uprising of 2011 that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
Russia says too early for U.N. resolution on Syria attack
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The U.N. Security Council should wait for inspectors to present their report on an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria before considering a response, Interfax news agency quoted a senior Russian diplomat as saying on Wednesday.
Turkey sends aid workers trained for chemical attacks to Syria border
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey has sent extra aid workers trained to identify and decontaminate chemical weapons victims to its border with Syria after an apparent poison gas attack in Damascus a week ago which may lead to Western military action.
