At least three people were killed and 91 others injured after a fire engulfed a hotel and several nearby buildings in downtown Cairo early Monday, according to Egypt’s ambulance services. European finance ministers met Monday in Brussels to try to break a deadlock over whether to provide Greece the next batch of bailout loans, which it needs to avoid bankruptcy this summer, and forgive some of its debts. Greece’s economy has been hammered by six years of budget cuts that were required by creditors to reduce the country’s public debt load. The militant Hezbollah group and its allies won a vast majority of seats in areas where they ran in local elections in eastern Lebanon, the group’s deputy leader said Monday, a day after the vote took place. The government has postponed Lebanon’s parliamentary elections, citing security concerns linked to the conflict in neighboring Syria. Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla on Monday called on Islamic leaders to spread messages about a tolerant Islam to curb extremism that often springs from misinterpretation of Islamic teachings. Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, has seen a spate of deadly attacks by Islamic militants including the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people. Spain’s maritime rescue service said it picked up 44 sub-Saharan migrants who set off in a boat from the west coast of Africa in a bid to reach Spain.
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