Egypt’s Mansour takes oath as head of top court
CAIRO (Reuters) – The Egyptian judge who is due to be sworn in as interim president on Thursday took his oath of office as head of the constitutional court.
Top Brotherhood leaders in same Cairo prison as Mubarak: MENA
CAIRO (Reuters) – Top leaders of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood movement arrested on Wednesday after the army toppled Mohamed Mursi from the presidency were being held in the same Cairo prison as Mursi’s predecessor Hosni Mubarak, state news agency MENA sa…
Insight: Nigeria seeks farming revival to break oil curse
SAULAWA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Down a winding dirt track in this sleepy village in northern Nigeria lies a corn farm which looks much like the dozens that surround it. The difference is, this one is turning a profit.
Worries mount for German ‘Mittelstand’ as election looms
BERLIN (Reuters) – Christof Rosenberg has been trying for a year to find a skilled toolmaker for the specialist pipe company he runs with his two brothers in western Germany.
When is a coup not a coup? Obama faces tricky call in Egypt
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Egyptian military’s overthrow of elected President Mohamed Mursi left President Barack Obama grappling with a difficult question of diplomacy and language in dealing with the Arab world’s most populous nation: was it a coup?
Abe urges voters to help end parliamentary deadlock
FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, riding high in opinion polls on hopes he can revive a stagnant economy, urged voters on Thursday to back his ruling bloc in this month’s upper house election and end a six-year policy dea…
South Korea proposes fresh talks with North over shuttered factories
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea offered to hold talks with North Korea aimed at reopening a jointly run factory park near the armed border between the two countries just three weeks after their last attempt at dialogue faltered amid bickering over protoc…
Brief shooting at Islamist camp in Cairo
CAIRO (Reuters) – There was a brief outbreak of shooting early on Thursday around a gathering near a Cairo mosque of supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi, but witnesses said it was not clear that anyone was injured.
Latin America fumes over Bolivia incident in Snowden saga
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Latin American leaders slammed European governments on Wednesday for diverting Bolivian President Evo Morales’ plane on rumors it was carrying a wanted former U.S. spy agency contractor, and announced an emergency summit in a n…
U.N. concerned about Egypt army interference but doesn’t condemn
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed on Wednesday for calm and restraint in Egypt, as well as the preservation of rights such as freedom of expression and assembly, after the country’s army overthrew Islamist President…
