Moscow / AFP Desperate efforts to salvage Syria’s ceasefire shifted to Moscow on Tuesday as the country’s battered second city of Aleppo came under fresh fire that killed at least four people. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was due to hold talks with UN envoy Staffan de Mistura in the Russian capital in a last-ditch bid to rescue peace negotiations that ...

  Kuwait City / AFP The UN envoy has met delegates of Yemen’s warring parties separately in a bid to restart peace negotiations after a protest walkout by the government, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The government delegation quit on Sunday in protest at the rebels’ seizure of one of the few loyalist army bases in the northern mountains in ...

  TEHRAN / AP Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has rallied for more freedom of speech in his country, saying government critics should not be imprisoned. Rouhani says that “critics should not be detained, critics should not be sent to jail.” He spoke at the annual Tehran International Book Fair on Tuesday. The remarks, which underscored Rouhani’s 2013 election promises of ...