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| Anger as Shi'ite cleric among 47 in mass Saudi terrorism execution | |  By Angus McDowall RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric and dozens of al Qaeda members on Saturday, signalling it would not tolerate attacks by either sunni jihadists or minority shi'ites seeking equality, but stirring sectarian anger across the region. Scores of Shi'ite Muslims marched through the Qatif district of Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province in protest at the execution of cleric Nimr al-Nimra, an eyewitness said.
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| Shi'ites across the Middle East decry execution of Saudi cleric | |  By Sam Wilkin DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's execution of a leading cleric from the Shi'ite Muslim minority drew warnings of a backlash against the ruling Al Saud family and threatened to further intensify a wave of sectarian conflict in the region. Lebanon's Supreme Islamic Shi'ite Council called the execution of cleric Nimr al-Nimr a "grave mistake", and the Hezbollah group termed it an assassination. Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, an establishment cleric in largely Shia rival Iran, said repercussions against the Sunni Saudi rulers would "wipe them from the pages of history".
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| Hezbollah slams Saudi execution of Shi'ite cleric, blames U.S. support of Riyadh | |  Lebanon's Shi'ite Hezbollah condemned the execution of a prominent Shi'ite cleric in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, calling it an "assassination" and blaming it on the United States and its allies' support for Riyadh. Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr and three other members of Saudi Arabia's Shi'ite minority were executed on Saturday alongside 43 Sunni jihadists, drawing condemnation by Shi'ites across the Middle East The "real reason" for the execution was "that Sheikh Nimr... demanded the squandered rights of an oppressed people," Hezbollah said in a statement, apparently referring to Saudi Arabia's Shi'ite minority. "The Saudi authorities ... put them (the Shi'ites executed) together with terrorist bands and groups which had committed crimes against civilians.
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| After alert, German minister urges closer ties to foreign agencies | |  German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Saturday closer cooperation with foreign security services was needed after a New Year's Eve security alert in Munich highlighted fears about an attack on German soil. Shortly before midnight on Dec. 31, police cleared two stations in the Bavarian capital after a tipoff that militants from Iraq and Syria were planning attacks. De Maiziere said the threat of an attack had not diminished.
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| Suicide bomber kills three in Somali capital, police say | | | By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide bomber attacked a popular restaurant in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, on Saturday, killing himself and at least three others, Somali police said. The attacker, dressed in a business suit over a suicide vest, detonated the bomb after entering the Village Restaurant, which is opposite Somalia's National Theatre, police said. "So far, three civilians are dead," Major Nur Ali, a senior police officer, told Reuters. |
| Lebanese Shi'ite council condemns Saudi execution of prominent cleric | |  Lebanon's Supreme Islamic Shi'ite Council condemned the execution of a prominent Shi'ite cleric in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, saying it was a "grave mistake". "The execution of Sheikh Nimr was an execution of reason, moderation and dialogue," the council's Vice President Sheikh Abdel Amir Qabalan said in a statement. Saudi Arabia executed Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr and 46 other people.
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| Iran accuses Saudi Arabia of supporting terrorism after Nimr execution | | | DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's foreign ministry spokesman accused Saudi Arabia on Saturday of supporting terrorism and executing its opponents, after Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Shi'ite cleric. "The Saudi government supports terrorists and takfiri (radical Sunni) extremists, while executing and suppressing critics inside the country," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossein Jaber Ansari was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA. (Reporting by Sam Wilkin; Editing by Catherine Evans) |
| Gunmen attack Indian air base in Pathankot, 6 dead | |  By Mukesh Gupta PATHANKOT, India (Reuters) - Four gunmen and two guards were killed when unidentified militants attacked an Indian Air Force base in Pathankot, Punjab near the Pakistan border on Saturday in an apparent challenge to attempts to revive a dialogue between the nuclear-armed neighbours. Officials said the gunmen, wearing army fatigues, managed to enter the Pathankot air base Punjab before dawn on Saturday.
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| Iranian cleric says Nimr execution will bring down Saudi government | |  A prominent cleric with close links to Iran's ruling establishment denounced the execution on Saturday of a Saudi Shi'ite cleric and predicted the repercussions would bring down the Saudi ruling family. Saudi Arabia executed 47 people for terrorism including Nimr al-Nimr, whom the government accuses of inciting violence among the Shi'ite minority, and at least three other Shi'ites. Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, one of the most senior clerics in Shi'ite-ruled Iran, said in an interview with the Mehr news agency that Nimr's execution reflected the "criminal" nature of the Saudi ruling family.
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| Next parliament session can break tax deadlock: Arun Jaitley | |  Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Saturday the upcoming budget session of parliament would be crucial for the passage of the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) that has been blocked in two successive sessions. The GST reform is long overdue and should have come much earlier, Jaitley told an event in New Delhi according to the finance ministry's Twitter feed. The reform needs a two-thirds majority to amend the constitution and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's nationalist coalition lacks the votes it needs in the upper house of parliament.
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