Tunisia arrests 41 more after fresh anti-austerity protests
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian police arrested 41 more protesters after fresh violent protests against austerity measures in the North African country, the interior ministry said on Monday, bringing the number of arrested to around 850.
Madrid to keep direct rule of Catalonia if former leader reelected: PM
MADRID (Reuters) – Madrid will continue to run Catalonia’s government if sacked former leader Carles Puigdemont is voted regional president by the Catalan parliament while in self-imposed exile in Brussels, Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on …
Stricken tanker leaves large oil slick in East China Sea
TOKYO/BEIJING (Reuters) – A burning Iranian oil tanker that sank in the East China Sea on Sunday in the worst oil ship disaster in decades has produced a large oil slick, Chinese media and Japanese authorities said on Monday, as worries grew over damag…
UAE says Qatari fighter jets intercepted civilian flight
DUBAI (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates said on Monday that Qatari fighter jets intercepted an Emirati civilian aircraft during a routine flight to Bahrain, which Qatar denied, escalating a months-old feud between the Gulf Arab states.
Four Pakistani soldiers killed in Indian fire across tense Kashmir frontier
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Four Pakistani soldiers were killed on Monday in shelling by Indian forces in the disputed Kashmir region, the Pakistani army said, the latest clash between the nuclear-armed neighbors who have also been exchanging heated challeng…
German conservatives seek to allay SPD fears over coalition deal
BERLIN (Reuters) – A senior member of Germany’s conservatives said a blueprint on forming a coalition government with the Social Democrats (SPD) would be further refined, in remarks seemingly intended to appease opponents of the deal.
Johnson fears ‘waste of time’ watered-down Brexit – report
LONDON (Reuters) – Foreign minister Boris Johnson has told friends he is worried that Britain will accept a Brexit deal that leaves it subordinate to Brussels, making the 2016 EU referendum a “total waste of time”, the Sun newspaper reported on Monday….
Scores injured as Indonesia stock exchange building lobby floor collapses
JAKARTA (Reuters) – A mezzanine floor overlooking the main lobby of the Indonesian Stock Exchange building collapsed on Monday, injuring scores of people, many of them students, under slabs of concrete and other debris, officials and witnesses said.
Russia will not support U.S. bid to change Iran nuclear deal: Lavrov
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday Moscow will not support attempts by Washington to modify the Iran nuclear deal, arguing such a move could also complicate diplomacy over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.
Koreas agree to hold Olympics talks on Wednesday, Seoul says
SEOUL (Reuters) – North and South Korea agreed to hold working talks on Wednesday on the North sending athletes to next month’s Winter Olympics in the South, Seoul’s unification ministry said, as months-long tensions over the North’s weapons programs e…
