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…
Political crisis, privatization gap won’t derail bailout: Greek PM
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s recent government crisis and failure to meet privatization targets will not derail an international bailout, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said on Saturday.
Junior Czech coalition party wins speaker post in reshuffle plan
PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech coalition agreed on Saturday that the junior party can have the post of parliamentary speaker if the current one becomes prime minister in a reshuffle caused by a spying and bribery scandal.
Iraq attacks kill more than 30
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a Shi’ite mosque in northern Baghdad killing at least 12 people during evening prayers, police and medics said, in the deadliest of a series of attacks that claimed more than 30 lives across I…
Vatican paper contests study on alleged Nazi collaborator
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican newspaper said on Saturday a decision by scholars to brand a wartime Italian previously praised for saving Jews as a Nazi collaborator was part of an attempt to smear the Catholic Church during the papacy of Pope Pi…
