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| Egypt security forces clash with protesters |
| Demonstrators calling for Egypt’s President Mohamed Mursi to resign and demanding early elections clashed with riot police in Cairo late Friday. |
| UN chief’s SOS for Syria talks |
| A proposed international conference to try to stop Syria’s civil war should be held as soon as possible, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday, but no date has yet been agreed for a meeting that appears to face growing obstacles. |
| Kerry to attend Syria talks on May 22 |
| US Secretary of State John Kerry will attend talks on Syria in Amman on Wednesday, the State Department said, as major powers try to bring the Syrian government and opposition to peace talks in June. |
| 73 killed, 148 injured in Iraq attacks |
| A wave of bombing attacks struck war-torn Iraq on Friday, leaving as many as 73 people dead and 148 injured, police and officials said. |
| Bahrain govt dispels oppn rumours on campaigner |
| MANAMA — Bahrain has denied rumours spread by the opposition that a human right campaigner has gone missing from prison. |
| Obama, Erdogan demand Assad step down |
| US President Barack Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted Bashar Al Assad must step down amid a flurry of moves to organize peace talks to end Syria’s civil war. |
| Syrian troops flush out rebels from prison |
| Syrian government troops on Thursday flushed out rebels who had stormed a prison compound in the northern city of Aleppo in a bid to free hundreds of political prisoners inside. |
| Golan peacekeeping force suffers third abduction |
| Syrian rebels seized three UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights in the third abduction in two months in the ceasefire zone between Syria and Israel, the UN said Thursday. |
| UN nuclear talks with Iran fail to end deadlock |
| The United Nations’ nuclear agency failed to persuade Iran on Wednesday to let it resume an investigation into suspected atomic bomb research, leaving the high-stakes diplomacy in deadlock. |
| Protesters close Libyan oil terminal, halt exports |
| Protesters and disgruntled job seekers forced the closure of an eastern Libyan oil terminal on Wednesday for the second time in six months, disrupting exports, said an oil ministry official. |
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