BEIRUT - Syria's President Bashar Assad attended Eid prayers in a mosque in Damascus on Sunday, his first appearance in public after a bombing in the Syrian capital last month that killed the country's defense minister and three other top security … Syria's Assad Makes Rare Appearance at Mosque - Wall Street Journal
AP BEIRUT--Syria's President Bashar Assad attended Eid prayers in a mosque in Damascus on Sunday, his first appearance in public after a bombing in the Syrian capital last month that killed the country's defense minister and three other top security … Assange to speak from Ecuador embassy in diplomatic standoff - Reuters
By Alessandra Prentice | LONDON Aug 19 (Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange prepared to weigh into the diplomatic standoff between Britain and Ecuador on Sunday but may stay holed up in his refuge at the Ecuadorean embassy to avoid arrest as … S. African miners get ultimatum after shootings
Platinum producer Lonmin has given striking workers a final ultimatum to end a wildcat stayaway by Monday or face being fired after police gunned down 34 protesters. 3 NATO service members killed in Afghan attack
NATO says three international service members have been killed in a bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan. Journalists protest pace of Philippine massacre trial
Philippine journalists and activists gathered for an overnight vigil late on Sunday, criticising the slow pace of the trial over a massacre that left 57 people including journalists dead. Pietersen set for England talks - report
Dropped star batsman Kevin Pietersen is facing showdown talks with England skipper Andrew Strauss next week as he tries to rescue his international career. Qaeda suicide bomber kills Yemen militia chief
A suspected Al-Qaeda suicide bomber blew himself up early Sunday in southern Yemen killing the commander of a local pro-army militia and wounding six people, a government official told AFP. Prince Philip to miss church after health scare
Queen Elizabeth II was to attend a church service near Balmoral on Sunday without her husband Prince Philip by her side as he remains in hospital for a fifth day. Assad appears in public for Eid prayers
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad joined prayers at a Damascus mosque Sunday for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr, as his forces reportedly pressed on with a deadly assault against rebels. Bomber kills 7 Russian policemen at funeral
A suicide bomber blew himself up as policemen in southern Russia gathered Sunday for the funeral of a slain colleague, killing at least seven of the policemen and badly wounding 12 other people, investigators said.
Car bombs explode in Libya's capital, killing 2
Two car bombs exploded in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, killing two people and injuring several others early on Sunday, a security official said.
Clal Insurance sells U.S. unit to Berkshire unit for $221 million
TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Israel’s Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings agreed to sell its subsidiary Clal U.S. Holdings Inc for $221 million to Nebraska-based National Indemnity Co, a unit of Berkshire Hathaway Inc . The deal is subject to U.S. regulatory approval, Clal, a subsidiary of the IDB Holding group, said in a statement on Sunday. If approvals are not obtained by December 15 each side will be eligible to extend the deadline by three months. Clal U.S. Holdings owns U.S. insurer Guard Financial Group, which it bought five years ago for $120 million. …
Assange to make 1st public appearance in 2 months
WikiLeaks says founder Julian Assange is making his first public appearance since he took refuge inside Ecuador's Embassy in London two months ago to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual misconduct allegations. Assange to speak from Ecuador embassy in diplomatic standoff
LONDON (Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange prepared to weigh into the diplomatic standoff between Britain and Ecuador on Sunday but may stay holed up in his refuge at the Ecuadorean embassy to avoid arrest as workmen prepared a balcony for his statement. Ecuador has granted political asylum to the former computer hacker who incensed the United States and its allies by using his WikiLeaks website to leak hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic and military cables in 2010. … Iran leader says 'tumour' of Israel is biggest problem
The "cancerous tumour" of Israel is the biggest problem confronting Muslim countries today, Iran's supreme leader said on Sunday, repeating an epithet slammed just days earlier by UN chief Ban Ki-moon and US and EU officials. Iran rejects allegation of role in deadly Afghan bombings
KABUL (Reuters) – Iran has rejected Afghan government claims that Tehran orchestrated a series of suicide bomb attacks earlier this week that killed at least 28 people in Afghanistan, Iran’s English-language Press TV reported on Sunday. Afghanistan’s spy agency, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), killed two alleged insurgents and detained three more this week for what they said was their involvement in the bombings this week in Afghanistan’s Nimroz province. …
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