NICOSIA, Cyprus – Cyprus’ transport minister says tenders will be issued this week for management of the east Mediterranean island nation’s largest port of Limassol. Marios Demetriades told a news conference Monday that companies may bid to manage the port as a container hub, a cruise liner port of call …
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SANAA, Yemen – Security officials say gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead the head of security in Yemen’s port city of Aden. The officials say Col. Abdelhakim al-Sanidi was killed Sunday while driving on a busy street in al-Mansoura neighborhood. Last week, high-ranking police officials in Aden said hundreds of …
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Israel is entering its third week of war against Hamas after the terrorist group infiltrated the country on Oct. 7, and killed more than 1,400 Israelis, mostly civilians. Thousands of rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip toward highly populated areas. In response, Israeli airstrikes have pounded Hamas in …
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LONDON – Prosecutors have charged 10 men with sexual offenses against girls as young as 13 in a case that has stirred racial tensions in northwestern England. The Crown Prosecution Service said in a statement Monday that the offenses include rape and sexual activity with a child. They are alleged …
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CAIRO – Egypt’s highest appeals court has upheld the sentencing of two police officers to 10 years in prison each for the 2010 killing of a political activist in the port city of Alexandria. Wednesday’s ruling cannot be appealed. The officers were convicted in a retrial last year in a …
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JOHANNESBURG – The South African president’s spokesman says three of the president’s children and their cousin have been in a car accident. Spokesman Mac Maharaj said Friday that President Jacob Zuma’s children were all in a stable condition and were being treated for various injuries at a hospital in the …
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BERLIN – Credit Suisse says its chief executive Brady W. Dougan is to leave the bank after eight years. The American will be replaced in June by Tidjane Thiam, the head of British insurer Prudential. The Swiss bank’s chairman, Urs Rohner, said in a statement Tuesday that Dougan had kept …
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina – Authorities in Bosnia say a van transporting radioactive material has been involved in a crash, but there is no danger of radiation leakage as the substance remained sealed in its container. The van overturned on a motorway near the northeastern town of Maglaj on Friday after colliding …
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina – European Union foreign ministers have unblocked Bosnia’s stalled membership bid by agreeing to implement a pre-accession agreement with the troubled Balkan nation seven years after it had been reached. Monday’s decision comes less than a month after Bosnia’s parliament adopted an EU-required economic and social reform plan …
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KINSHASA, Congo – Congo will expel the African activists arrested over the weekend following a U.S.-sponsored event to encourage greater participation in politics. The activists — from Senegal and Burkina Faso — are members of movements that have led large-scale protests in their countries in recent years against presidents attempting …
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