Whistleblowers pay price even as China vows to fight corruption
HUIZHOU, China (Reuters) – Chinese bloggers trying to expose corruption say they are coming under increasing physical and verbal attack over their reports, in what anti-graft activists describe as another blow to efforts to make Chinese officials more …
Spain studies measures to pressure Gibraltar
MADRID/GIBRALTAR (Reuters) – Spain is studying retaliatory measures against the British territory of Gibraltar in an escalating dispute over fishing grounds, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said in an interview published on Sunday….
U.S. extends closure of some embassies through August 10
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States extended the closures of some embassies and consulates in the Middle East – which had been closed Sunday due to an al Qaeda threat – through August 10 due to caution but not the emergence of any new threat, the …
Islamist militants attack Somali capital, plan more before Ramadan ends
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Islamist militants set off several explosions in the Somali capital on Sunday, their spokesman said, demonstrating the rebels’ ability to attack the heart of government-controlled areas despite security gains.
Czech purge provokes cabinet legitimacy row before confidence vote
PRAGUE (Reuters) – The new Czech cabinet has embarked on a bureaucratic purge, provoking the kind of conflict over democratic legitimacy that is dividing a number of central and eastern European countries two decades after the fall of communism.
Security tightens around shuttered Yemen embassies after militant warning
SANAA (Reuters) – Soldiers blocked roads outside Western embassies in Sanaa on Sunday, after a U.S. warning of a possible major militant attack in the Middle East prompted the closure of many missions in Yemen and U.S. missions in several other Arab st…
Berlusconi backs government at rally against tax conviction
ROME (Reuters) – Thousands of supporters of Silvio Berlusconi protested in Rome on Sunday against a tax fraud conviction that has rocked Italy’s fragile coalition, but the center-right leader said the government must continue.
Egyptian Brotherhood leaders to face trial for inciting murder
CAIRO (Reuters) – The leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and his deputy will face trial in three weeks’ time for crimes including incitement to murder during protests in the days before the overthrow of President Mohamed Mursi, a Cairo court announce…
Tunisian soldier killed, seven wounded in landmine by Algeria border
TUNIS (Reuters) – One Tunisian soldier was killed and seven others wounded on Sunday by a landmine near the Algerian border, where security forces have been hunting Islamist militants, an army source said.
Senior U.S. senator says Putin acting like ‘schoolyard bully’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A senior Democratic senator said on Sunday that the U.S.-Russia relationship had become “poisonous” and urged President Barack Obama to consider moving next month’s Group of 20 summit away from the Russian city of St. Petersburg….
