Analysis: Egyptian crackdown hands al Qaeda new lease on life
LONDON (Reuters) – You would probably have to go back a decade to find a cause with such potential to mobilize jihadis worldwide in a short space of time.
Al Qaeda planning attacks on high-speed trains in Europe: newspaper
BERLIN (Reuters) – Al Qaeda is planning attacks on high-speed trains in Europe and the authorities in Germany have stepped up security on the country’s rail system, a German newspaper reported on Monday.
EU governments to discuss arms embargo on Egypt, among other options
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union foreign ministers could discuss the option of imposing an arms embargo on Egypt, when they meet on Wednesday to map out a response to violence in Egypt, a senior EU official said on Monday.
EU foreign ministers to discuss Egypt on Wednesday
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union foreign ministers will hold an emergency meeting in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss how to pressure Egypt’s army-backed rulers into finding a peaceful compromise with supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi.
India says Pakistan testing its restraint in Kashmir
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – – India said on Monday it was running out of patience with Pakistan army-backed transgressions across disputed Kashmir as cross-border firing spread further north for the first time since the two armies agreed to a ceasefire in 20…
Egypt’s Mubarak will be freed soon, lawyer says
CAIRO (Reuters) – Hosni Mubarak, the former Egyptian president overthrown in an uprising in 2011, will be released from jail soon after a prosecutor cleared him in a corruption case, his lawyer and a judicial source said on Monday.
South Korea targets growing Asian defense market with fighter jets
SACHEON, South Korea (Reuters) – South Korea, renowned for making hi-tech consumer devices, cars and ships, now has its sights on exporting fighter jets amid a projected sharp increase in demand for military weapons in Asia over the next decade.
Ex-CIA official to ask Italy for pardon over rendition: lawyer
ROME (Reuters) – Former CIA Milan station chief Robert Seldon Lady is to ask Italy’s president to pardon him for kidnapping an Egyptian Muslim cleric under the U.S. “extraordinary rendition” program, his lawyer was quoted as saying on Monday.
Italian priest missing in Syria may be alive: monitoring group
BEIRUT (Reuters) – An Italian Jesuit priest who disappeared last month in eastern Syria may still be alive, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday, almost a week after it said he had been killed by al Qaeda-linked rebels.
Booming Gibraltar fears new era of sour relations with Spain
GIBRALTAR (Reuters) – The people of tiny Gibraltar – a wealthy British enclave perched on a rocky outcrop near Spain’s southern tip – have a tradition of griping about their big neighbor, which claims the territory as its own.
