By Dave Graham and Miguel Gutierrez MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Divisions within Mexico’s main conservative opposition party have erupted into a bitter public dispute that threatens to undermine the reform agenda of President Enrique Pena Nieto. Short of a majority in Congress, Pena Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is likely to need support from the [...]
By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron’s flagship gay marriage policy is set to deepen a rift in his own party on Monday with many of his own lawmakers preparing to defy him in a sign of growing strains on his leadership and his coalition government. Up to half of Cameron’s [...]
MAIDUGURI (Reuters) – Nigeria relaxed a curfew on Monday in parts of the northeast where its troops are mounting their biggest offensive yet against militants from the Islamist group Boko Haram. The Nigerian military has sent thousands of extra troops to try to dislodge well-armed Boko Haram fighters from territory they control in remote semi-deserts [...]
SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria’s Socialists revealed a plan on Monday to speed payments to business and boost support for the poorest in a bid to win support for a technocrat government and end a political deadlock after an inconclusive election. No party won a majority in the May 12 vote, but the center-right GERB party [...]
By Estelle Shirbon LONDON (Reuters) – Radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada could be deported to Jordan to face trial on terrorism charges within weeks, a British court heard on Monday, and it ruled he should remain in jail in the meantime to prevent him from absconding. Abu Qatada’s deportation to Jordan, which the British government [...]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel said on Monday it had canceled a visit by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to Jerusalem’s Old City, saying the Palestinians had sought to politicize a conservation mission. No one was immediately available for comment at UNESCO’s Paris headquarters. A month ago, it announced it would send [...]
By Khaled Yacoub Oweis and Dominic Evans AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) – About 30 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have been killed in the fiercest fighting this year in the rebel stronghold of Qusair, Syrian activists said on Monday. Sunday’s reported death toll was the highest for Hezbollah [...]
By Yeganeh Torbati DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s electoral watchdog said on Monday it would bar physically feeble candidates from running for president, in an apparent hint that it could disqualify 78-year-old former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani from the race. Rafsanjani, if he is allowed to run, would be a significant challenge to conservative hardliners who [...]
MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) – Two car bombs killed at least three people and wounded dozens of others on Monday in Dagestan, a turbulent province in Russia’s North Caucasus region where armed groups are waging an Islamist insurgency. Car bombs, suicide bombings and firefights are common in Dagestan, at the center of an insurgency rooted in [...]
AMMAN (Reuters) – About 30 fighters from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and 20 Syrian soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Bashar al-Assad were killed in heavy fighting with rebels in the town of Qusair, Syrian activists said on Monday. Opposition sources and state media gave sharply differing accounts of the outcome of Sunday’s ferocious [...]
