Malaysia declares emergency as Indonesia smoke pollution thickens
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia declared a state of emergency in two parts of the southern state of Johor on Sunday, as smoke from land-clearing fires in Indonesia pushed air pollution above the level considered hazardous.
Activist killed in Albanian election watched by West
TIRANA (Reuters) – A politician was injured and an activist died in a shootout during an Albanian parliamentary election on Sunday, a vote being watched by Western allies worried about democracy in the NATO country.
France’s Hollande believes hostages in North Africa alive
DOHA (Reuters) – France has “all reason” to believe that the French hostages being held by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) are alive, President Francois Hollande said on Sunday.
France makes new offers on military equipment to Qatar: report
DOHA (Reuters) – France has made new offers on supplying military equipment to Qatar and is optimistic about the outcome, French President Francois Hollande said in an interview published on Sunday.
Flooding to close core of Canada’s oil capital for days
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – Some residents began returning to damaged homes on Saturday after record-breaking floods in southern Alberta that killed at least three people, displaced more than 100,000 and will leave the core of Canada’s oil capital, Ca…
Mursi’s controversial Islamist Luxor governor to quit: party
CAIRO (Reuters) – The governor of Egypt’s Luxor province, controversially appointed despite belonging to a hardline Islamist group that massacred 58 tourists in Luxor in 1997, will step down on Sunday “for the sake of Egypt”, the group said.
French President Hollande’s popularity down again: poll
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande’s popularity was back to record lows in June after inching up in May, according to an Ifop poll carried out for French newspaper Journal du Dimanche.
Left seeks to unseat Albania’s Berisha in tense election
TIRANA (Reuters) – A united left in Albania seeks to unseat Prime Minister Sali Berisha on Sunday in an election watched closely by the West less for the result than the conduct, given rising concern over the state of democracy in the NATO country.
Turkish police break up protest, PM lambasts opponents
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish riot police fired water cannon to disperse thousands of anti-government demonstrators in Istanbul on Saturday, as Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan castigated those behind protests he said had played into the hands of Turkey’s …
Western, Arab states to step up Syrian rebel support
DOHA (Reuters) – International opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad agreed on Saturday to give urgent military support to Western-backed rebels, aiming to stem a counter-offensive by Assad’s forces and offset the growing power of jihadist figh…
