Norway PM doubles down on tax cuts in bid for second term
ARENDAL, Norway (Reuters) – With four weeks to go before an election that is too close to call, Norway’s Conservative Prime Minister Erna Solberg pledged on Monday to cut taxes to boost growth and job creation if she was reelected.
Finland’s co-ruling nationalists seek fresh start after party break-up
HELSINKI (Reuters) – A splinter group of nationalists who remained in Finland’s ruling coalition after their party broke up called on Monday for big tax cuts for the middle class in a bid to improve their dismal standing in the polls.
Migrant arrivals in Italy fall in July, rise in Spain: Frontex
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The number of African migrants arriving in Italy after crossing the Mediterranean from Libya dropped by more than half in July from June, the European Union’s border agency Frontex said on Monday.
Brexit campaigners launch bid to oust pro-EU finance minister
LONDON (Reuters) – One of the most vocal pro-Brexit campaign groups launched a campaign on Monday to oust finance minister Philip Hammond from parliament, saying he is part of a plot to stop Britain leaving the European Union.
Welfare comes before defense spending: Merkel
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that welfare and social spending must take precedence over the increased military expenditure demanded by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Voters sense betrayal in Britain’s Brexit heartlands
CHATHAM, England (Reuters) – There is a whiff of betrayal in the air across Britain’s Brexit heartlands where many impatient voters fear Prime Minister Theresa May is going soft on implementing last year’s decision to leave the European Union.
South Africa’s Zuma says ANC lawmakers who voted against him must be punished
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma wants the African National Congress to identify and punish party members who voted against him in a no-confidence motion in parliament last week.
Austria finds some egg products contaminated with insecticide: ORF
VIENNA (Reuters) – Tests show that some imported egg products in Austria have been contaminated with a potentially harmful insecticide, a health ministry official told broadcaster ORF on Monday, adding to the list of countries affected by an internatio…
Eye-catching China activist Super Vulgar Butcher ‘admits wrongdoing’
BEIJING (Reuters) – A human rights activist best known as “Super Vulgar Butcher” who rose to prominence by harnessing social media to mobilize public support admitted in a closed-door trial that his actions “violated the law”, a Chinese court said on M…
Zimbabwe’s Mnangagwa, possible Mugabe successor, hospitalized in South Africa
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a possible successor to 94-year-old President Robert Mugabe, is unwell and had been taken to a hospital in South Africa.
