Libyan army chief quits after bloody Benghazi clashes
TRIPOLI/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Libya’s army chief of staff resigned on Sunday after clashes in the eastern city of Benghazi the previous day in which 31 people were killed, national assembly sources said.
South Africans pray for Mandela recovery
SOWETO, South Africa (Reuters) – South Africans prayed for Nelson Mandela’s recovery on Sunday as the 94-year-old former president spent a second day in hospital with a recurring lung infection.
Protester killed outside Iran’s Beirut embassy
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A Lebanese protester was killed outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut on Sunday after gunmen from the Iranian-backed Shi’ite militia Hezbollah opened fire when anti-Hezbollah Shi’ite demonstrators approached, witnesses and officials …
Iraqi PM visits Kurdistan to try to ease crisis
ARBIL/BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki visited the Kurdistan region on Sunday for the first time in more than two years, in a symbolic step towards resolving a long-running dispute over oil and land that has strained Iraq’s…
Iran ups cyber attacks on Israeli computers: Netanyahu
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran and its Palestinian and Lebanese allies on Sunday of carrying out “non-stop” cyber attacks on major computer systems in his country.
British police say fire at London Islamic school suspicious
LONDON (Reuters) – A fire at an Islamic boarding school in London late on Saturday night is being treated as suspicious, the police said, just days after a mosque was burnt down in another part of the British capital in a suspected arson attack.
UK says eavesdropping is legal, defends U.S. spy links
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said eavesdropping by its GCHQ security agency was legal and no threat to privacy but would not confirm or deny reports it received data from a secret U.S. intelligence program.
Italian PM hopes local election will strengthen hand
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta hopes to lift his bruised center-left party in local elections that conclude on Monday, strengthening his hold over an uneasy coalition government with its traditional rivals on the center-right.
Despite the politics, Chinese investment in U.S. grows
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) – The biggest-ever Chinese acquisition of a U.S. company faces hurdles in Washington from lawmakers and regulators, but in much of America, Chinese investment is quietly booming.
Evangelical Christians gain political clout in Catholic Brazil
BRASILIA (Reuters) – When televangelist Silas Malafaia gathered 40,000 followers outside Brazil’s Congress this week, it wasn’t just to raise their arms to the sky and praise the Lord.
