Middle East News Headlines
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UPDATE 1-Honduras formally declares Hezbollah a terrorist organization
TEGUCIGALPA, Jan 20 (Reuters) - The Honduran government has formally declared Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah a terrorist organization, a top security official said on Monday.
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Turk Telekom hit by cyber attack
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turk Telekom has been hit by a cyber attack that has led to problems with internet access, the Turkish telecoms company said on Monday.
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UPDATE 1-U.N. says militants targeted aid worker hub in northern Nigeria
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Islamist militants attacked a facility housing several aid groups in northeast Nigeria at the weekend in what the United Nations warned on Monday is an escalation in violence specifically targeting aid workers.
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UPDATE 2-EU agrees to consider ways to support formal Libya truce
BRUSSELS, Jan 20 (Reuters) - European Union foreign ministers agreed on Monday to look at ways to support a formal ceasefire in Libya if warring sides can move beyond a tentative truce, including a monitoring mission and reviving a naval operation to uphold a U.N. arms embargo.
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UPDATE 1-Iran considers dual nationals on downed Ukrainian plane to be Iranians - TV
DUBAI, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Iran considers the passengers with dual nationality, who were on a Ukrainian plane that was shot down accidentally earlier this month, killing all on board, to be Iranian citizens, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Monday.
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Venezuela's Guaido to meet top EU diplomat in Brussels
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido will come to Brussels on Wednesday to hold talks with the European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, Borrell told a news conference.
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Venezuela's Guaido to meet top EU diplomat in Brussels
BRUSSELS, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido will come to Brussels on Wednesday to hold talks with the European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, Borrell told a news conference.
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FACTBOX-How the Iran nuclear deal dispute mechanism works
Jan 20 (Reuters) - Iran said it could quit the global nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if European countries refer it to the U.N. Security Council for scaling back its commitments under its 2015 nuclear pact with world powers, which the United States quit in 2018.
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Iran says it will quit global nuclear treaty if case goes to U.N.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said on Monday it could quit the global nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if European countries refer it to the U.N. Security Council over a nuclear agreement, a move that would overturn diplomacy in its confrontation with the West.
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Oil rises as Libya declares force majeure in oilfields
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices rose to their highest in more than week on Monday after two large crude production bases in Libya began shutting down amid a military blockade, risking reducing crude flows from the OPEC member to a trickle.
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