17/11/2012 10:30
International press at a glance
BBC
Iran is ready to double the output at its underground uranium enrichment facility, the UN nuclear watchdog says.
Reuters
Thousands of demonstrators chanted the Arab Spring slogan "the people want the downfall of the regime" in Jordan on Friday, although a day billed as the culmination of three days of protests passed off largely in peace.
Sky News
General David Petraeus has told US lawmakers he always believed the deadly September 11 attack on the US Consulate in Libya was a terrorist attack, according to congressmen.
Guardian
A rocket fired from Gaza has landed close to Jerusalem, bringing closer the possibility of a ground offensive by Israeli troops in the three-day-old conflict.
Aljazeera
An oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast has exploded, leaving two people missing and badly injuring several others, recalling the horror of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.
The Independent
A UN war crimes appeals court set free two former Croatian generals after clearing them of wrongdoing in connection with the murder and eviction of Serbs in 1995.
BBC
Ikea has said it "deeply regrets" the use of political prisoners as forced labour in communist East Germany by some of its suppliers.
Reuters
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah was admitted to a hospital in Riyadh on Friday night to undergo back surgery to tighten a loose ligament, the state's SPA news agency said.