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 many missions in Yemen and U.S. missions in several other Arab state…
Kuwait forms new Cabinet, includes six royals
ABU DHABI (Reuters) – A veteran former central bank governor was appointed Kuwait’s finance minister on Sunday, state news agency KUNA said, after a parliamentary election in the major crude producer last month.
Iranian President Rouhani takes oath of office before parliament
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani took the oath of office before parliament in Tehran on Sunday and was expected later in the day to name a cabinet he said would be chosen from figures across the political spectrum.
Israel’s Netanyahu lampooned for failing to fill top central bank job
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his finance minister, Yair Lapid, were pilloried by Israeli media on Sunday for their failure to fill the job of central bank chief and their lack of a proper vetting process, after two candid…
Syria limits foreign currency use, threatens traders with jail
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian traders who price goods in foreign currency will face up to 10 years in jail, the government announced on Sunday in a move aimed at stemming the increasing dollarization of an economy crippled by two years of civil war.
Spain studies retaliatory measures against Gibraltar: report
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….
Analysis: Israeli-Palestinian riddle won’t answer Middle East’s wider woes
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which once transfixed the Arab world, has lost much of its resonance in a Middle East riven by religious strife, political upheaval and economic woes.
Africa and West at odds over disputed Zimbabwe election
HARARE (Reuters) – South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma on Sunday congratulated Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe on his re-election, in sharp contrast to Western governments which questioned the credibility of a rushed, disputed vote.
Insight: Libya’s turmoil revealed in feud for custody of Gaddafi’s son
ZINTAN, Libya (Reuters) – To his captors, the fate of Libya’s most prominent prisoner, the son of ousted dictator Muammar Gaddafi, can be sealed only in one place – in the small straggling mountain town where they have kept him locked up for nearly two…
Europeans press Ukraine’s leader to accept deal on Tymoshenko, in return for trade pact
KIEV (Reuters) – He might be ready to let her out. But he can’t afford to let her back.
