BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Tough-talking Shiite Jawad Maliki was tasked to form a coalition government by Iraqi leaders on Saturday, ending a four-month political deadlock that many feared could pitch the country into a sectarian civil war.

GAZA CITY (AFP) — The Fateh Party of Mahmoud Abbas accused Hamas Saturday of courting civil war, as relations between the moderate Palestinian leader and the government hit crisis point less than a month after the Islamists took power.

MiliÅ£ia transnistreană a transferat forÅ£at la Tiraspol membrii conducerii portului VarniÅ£a, pe care l-a ocupat vineri, dar poliÅ£ia molodoveană nu poate interveni pentru evacuarea agresorilor, a anunÅ£at primarul localităţii, Tudor Serbov. Serbov a declarat că un grup format din circa 80 de persoane înarmate ÅŸi care se autointitulează miliÅ£ia transnistreană, …