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| U.N. chief 'deeply dismayed' by Saudi executions, calls for restraint | |  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday he was "deeply dismayed" by the execution of a prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric and 46 other people in Saudi Arabia and called for calm and restraint. Saudi Arabia executed cleric Nimr al-Nimr and dozens of al Qaeda members on Saturday, signaling it would not tolerate attacks, whether by Sunni jihadists or minority Shi'ites. "Sheik al-Nimr and a number of the other prisoners executed had been convicted following trials that raised serious concerns over the nature of the charges and the fairness of the process," Ban's spokesman said in a statement.
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| Chris Brown under investigation for battery in Las Vegas - police | |  Singer Chris Brown was under investigation by Las Vegas police on Saturday for possible battery on a woman, authorities said, in a case that comes nearly seven years after his notorious arrest for beating then-girlfriend Rihanna. Las Vegas police in a statement said a woman was at a party inside a hotel room at the Palms Casino Resort on Saturday morning when she tried to take a photo of the "Run It!" singer. The website TMZ posted a photo it said showed the woman's eye, which appeared to have some darkness around it.
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| Shi'ite cleric's execution may hit Saudi-Iraq rapprochement | | | By Maher Chmaytelli and Stephen Kalin BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's execution of a Shi'ite Muslim cleric could undermine efforts to improve relations with regional rival Iraq, where politicians, militias and a prominent cleric called on Saturday for newly resumed diplomatic ties to be severed. The Sunni-ruled kingdom reopened its embassy in Baghdad this week for the first time since ties were cut in 1990 over Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, underscoring a rapprochement that could help boost a regional alliance against Islamic State militants. "I urge the government to refrain from opening the Saudi embassy," prominent Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said in a statement, urging angry demonstrations in his country and across the Gulf to protest the execution. |
| Shi'ite cleric among 47 executed in Saudi Arabia, stirring anger in region | |  By Angus McDowall RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric and dozens of al Qaeda members on Saturday, signalling that it would not tolerate attacks, whether by Sunni jihadists or minority Shi'ites, and stirring sectarian anger across the region. Hundreds of Shi'ite Muslims marched through Qatif district in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province in protest at the execution of cleric Nimr al-Nimr, an eyewitness said. Nimr, the most vocal critic of the dynasty among the Shi'ite minority, had come to be seen as a leader of the sect's younger activists, who rejected the quiet approach of older community leaders for failing to achieve equality with Sunnis.
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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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| Iran's Guards say Saudi Arabia will face backlash for executing Nimr -Mehr | | | DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's hardline Revolutionary Guards said Saudi Arabia's ruling Al Saud family would face a backlash for executing a prominent Shi'ite cleric on Saturday. "A harsh revenge will strike the Al Saud in the near future and cause the fall of this pro-terrorist, anti-Islamic regime," the Guards said in a statement carried by the Mehr news agency. The Sunni kingdom executed Nimr al-Nimr and three other Shi'ites along with dozens of al Qaeda members, stirring sectarian anger across the region. (Reporting by Sam Wilkin; Editing by Kevin Liffey) |
| Israeli Arab named as suspect in Tel Aviv bar shooting | |  By Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Police in Israel were hunting on Saturday for an Israeli Arab identified as the suspect in Friday's deadly shooting attack on a Tel Aviv bar, a case they described as "complex and unique". Nashat Melhem, 29, from the village of Arara in northern Israel was still at large and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who visited the scene of the attack in which two people were killed, said security forces were searching for "a needle in a haystack". Netanyahu said the city centre shooting was a "despicable crime of unfathomable cruelty" and called for maximum vigilance from the public.
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| Man who drove car at French troops had jihadi propaganda in computer - prosecutor | | | By Arnaud Grange VALENCE, France (Reuters) - French investigators found jihadist propaganda material on Saturday in the computer of a man who drove his car into troops guarding a mosque in southern France on New Year's Day but said it did not prove he had links with any terrorist groups. "The inspection of his computer led to the discovery of jihadi propaganda images," local prosecutor Alex Perrin told Reuters. "It shows he had an appreciation of that but it does not prove he had links with terrorist organisations." The 29-year old Frenchman of Tunisian descent rammed his car into a group of four soldiers in a car park outside a large mosque in a suburb of Valence on Friday afternoon, the prosecutor told reporters earlier on Saturday. |
| U.S. concerned execution of Nimr will exacerbate sectarian tensions | |  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government expressed concern on Saturday that Saudi Arabia's execution of a prominent Shi'ite cleric, could exacerbate sectarian tensions, and urged all leaders in the Middle East to "redouble efforts" to de-escalate regional tensions. "We reaffirm our calls on the Government of Saudi Arabia to respect and protect human rights, and to ensure fair and transparent judicial proceedings in all cases," John Kirby, a spokesman for the U.S. State Department, said in a statement, after the execution of Nimr al-Nimr and 46 other people.
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| Iran reacts with fury after Saudis execute Shi'ite cleric | |  By Sam Wilkin and Angus McDowall DUBAI/RIYADH (Reuters) - Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi Embassy in Tehran early on Sunday morning as Shi'ite Muslim Iran reacted with fury to Saudi Arabia's execution of a prominent Shi'ite cleric. Demonstrators who had massed at the embassy gates to protest at Nimr al-Nimr's execution broke into the embassy and started fires before being cleared away by the police, Iran's ISNA news agency reported. Shortly afterwards, Iran's Foreign Ministry issued a statement calling for calm and urging protesters to respect the diplomatic premises, the Entekhab news website reported.
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| Iranian protesters storm Saudi embassy after Nimr execution, foreign ministry calls for calm | |  DUBAI (Reuters) - Angry Iranian protesters stormed Saudi Arabia's embassy in Tehran in the early hours of Sunday, smashing furniture and starting fires before being removed by the police. The protesters had gathered outside the embassy to protest against Saudi Arabia's execution of Nimr al-Nimr, a prominent cleric from the kingdom's Shi'ite minority, on terrorism charges that Iran said were unjustified. They then broke into the building and lit fires inside before being cleared by police, the ISNA news agency reported. ...
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