Fighting, shooting in central Cairo ends
CAIRO (Reuters) – Three hours of street fighting in central Cairo on Friday evening between hundreds of supporters and opponents of ousted President Mohamed Mursi eased after the army deployed units in armored vehicles.
Egypt army denies curfew in two North Sinai towns
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s army denied a report that curfews had been imposed in two North Sinai towns on the border with Israel and the Gaza Strip on Friday.
Egypt violence kills 17 as Mursi backers protest
CAIRO (Reuters) – Seventeen people were killed in violence in Egypt on Friday as supporters of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi protested his overthrow by the army, state television said, quoting Health Ministry data.
Portugal coalition partners reach deal on internal crisis: government
LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho has reached a deal with the ruling coalition’s junior partner CDS-PP to resolve a rift which has threatened the country’s adjustment program under a bailout, a government spokesman said o…
Bombs kill 22 in Iraq, Sunni leader urges Egypt-style protests
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed 15 people as they left a Shi’ite mosque in the Iraqi capital on Friday and a separate attack on Sunni protesters killed seven, police and medics said.
Egypt authorities impose curfew in two North Sinai towns: state TV
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian authorities have imposed a curfew in two North Sinai towns on the border with Israel and the Gaza Strip, state television reported on Friday.
Syrian opposition suffers setbacks on ground, in Egypt
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian state forces backed by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah hammered the central city of Homs on Friday, activists said, sparking concern from United Nations officials over thousands of civilians trapped in the city.
Five Egyptian police killed in attacks in Sinai town -sources
CAIRO (Reuters) – Five Egyptian police officers were gunned down in separate incidents on Friday in the North Sinai town of El Arish, medical sources said, after Islamist gunmen killed a soldier in a separate attack in a nearby town overnight.
Senior Egypt cleric demands politicians’ release
CAIRO (Reuters) – The head of Egypt’s leading Islamic institution demanded the release of political prisoners on Friday after the arrests of several leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood following the army’s overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi.
Iceland parliament declines Snowden’s citizenship bid
REYKJAVIK (Reuters) – A bid by Edward Snowden for Icelandic citizenship failed when the country’s parliament voted not to debate it before the summer recess, lawmakers said on Friday, with options for the U.S. fugitive narrowing by the day.
