Tehran / AFP Former hardline Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday he will not compete in next year’s presidential vote, following advice from Iran’s supreme leader, media reported. “In following the will of the great leader of the revolution, I have no plans to be present in next year’s presidential competitions,” he wrote in a letter to Ayatollah ...

  Tunis / AFP An appeal from Tunisia’s highest religious authority for workers to end strikes and protests and save the country’s ailing economy stirred outrage on Tuesday. Grand Mufti Othman Battikh on Monday called on Tunisians to “dedicate all their efforts to working and studying” and to “abandon untimely protests and sit-ins hindering work and production”. His remarks came ...

  Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG is nearing an agreement to operate airplanes now flying under the Air Berlin Plc banner, according to two people with knowledge of the matter, letting Lufthansa bolster its discount flights as Air Berlin cuts back its routes. Lufthansa’s supervisory board on Wednesday will review a plan to let its Eurowings low-cost arm use about 40 ...