A Cairo court adjourned Sunday the trial of Egypt’s former president Mohamed Morsiover charges of espionage to February 23. Presiding judge Shaaban El-Shami asked for mandating ten lawyers for the defendants.

Ukraine’s opposition has announced forming a parallel government upping the ante in its confrontation with President Viktor Yanukovych. Arseniy Yatsenyuk, a leader of the Batkivshchyna Party, said he had turned down Mr. Yanukovych offer to appoint him Prime Minister and that opposition

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier met on Friday in Moscow where they discussed Ukraine’s political situation. Lavrov has said the EU is trying to create a “sphere of influence” by pressing Ukraine to choose closer ties with the EU over Russia. Adding