Egypt opens border gate to allow stranded Gazans to cross
GAZA (Reuters) – Egypt opened its crossing with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday for several hours to allow stranded Palestinians to return to the enclave and for others to leave after five days of closure.
Egyptian liberal block withdraws statement rejecting decree
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s main liberal alliance withdrew a statement that rejected outright a constitutional decree announced by the state’s interim president and issued more mildly worded criticism.
Norway’s island shooting survivors run for parliament
OSLO (Reuters) – On a sunny day in Oslo, Vegard Groeslie Wennesland, a survivor of the shooting at the Labour Party’s youth camp on Utoeya island, gives out roses and discusses politics with shoppers.
New Egypt prime minister to start forming cabinet
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s new interim Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi said he would start work on forming his new cabinet on Wednesday, first meeting liberal leaders Mohamed ElBaradei and Ziad Bahaa-Eldin.
In Pakistan, army adamant on fighting the other Taliban
KALAM, Pakistan (Reuters) – In the past few years, Pakistan’s Swat valley has been occupied by Islamic insurgents, undergone a bruising counter-offensive by the army and then flooded by waters that washed away acres of fruit orchards and steeply terrac…
Faith healing: Going cold turkey in Myanmar behind locked doors
NAUNG CHEIN, Myanmar (Reuters) – A year ago, Wun Naung Lay left his village in northern Myanmar to look for work and found heroin instead. Today, the skeletal 25-year-old is locked up and going cold turkey beneath a filthy blanket in a bamboo cell.
Remains of kidnapped journalist believed found in Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduran police said on Tuesday they believe a severed head and other body parts found in a region of the country ravaged by Mexican drug cartels belong to a popular television journalist kidnapped last month.
Fugitive Snowden likely Venezuela bound, says U.S. journalist
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Fugitive former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden will likely accept asylum in Venezuela to escape prosecution in the United States, said Glenn Greenwald, the U.S. journalist who first published the secret documents…
Snowden has not yet accepted asylum in Venezuela: WikiLeaks
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden has not yet formally accepted asylum in Venezuela, the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks said on Tuesday after a Russian lawmaker posted a statement to that effect on Twitter and then delet…
Obama speaks with UAE Crown Prince, Qatar Emir about Egypt concerns
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Tuesday spoke by phone to two Middle Eastern allies – Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed of the United Arab Emirates and Qatar Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani – to discuss concerns about violent protes…
