Israeli panel approves West Bank settlement plan: reports
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli panel approved plans on Tuesday for the first new Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank in two decades, Israeli media reports said, drawing Palestinian condemnation and defying repeated international appeals to a…
Nepali Congress leader Deuba elected PM for fourth time
KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Sher Bahadur Deuba, the head of the centrist Nepali Congress party, won election as the Himalayan nation’s new prime minister on Tuesday, days after his Maoist predecessor quit under a power sharing deal.
U.S. denounces Venezuela for repression, calls for free elections
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United States denounced the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday for suppressing protests and called for free elections.
FBI helps South Sudan in murder and rape trial
JUBA (Reuters) – A U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation official is helping South Sudan to prosecute suspects in the murder of a South Sudanese aid worker and rape of his foreign colleagues, the U.S. embassy said on Tuesday.
Five Indian farmers shot dead as protests mount: reports
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Five Indian farmers were shot dead on Tuesday at a protest in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, according to news reports, marking an escalation of violence as a rural strike demanding debt relief spread.
Furor in Italy over possible freeing of Mafia boss to ‘die with dignity’
ROME (Reuters) – Italian politicians and relatives of victims of organized crime have voiced anger at a court ruling that opens the way for an ailing Mafia boss known as “the Beast” to be freed to “die with dignity”.
Germany’s Merkel says no tax rises in next parliament
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday she planned to offer voters in Europe’s biggest economy tax relief in the next legislative period, rather than introduce any increases.
UK police name third London attacker, Italy says was flagged in advance
LONDON (Reuters) – Police on Tuesday named the third of the jihadis who killed seven people in a knife and van attack in London, someone an Italian prosecutor said had been flagged to British authorities as a potential risk after he moved to England la…
Suspected bomb kills seven outside mosque in Afghanistan’s Herat
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A suspected bomb outside a mosque in the Afghan city of Herat killed at least seven people and wounded 15 on Tuesday, police said, the latest casualties in a particularly bloody week in Afghanistan.
France’s Macron set for biggest majority since De Gaulle: poll
PARIS (Reuters) – Emmanuel Macron’s party is set to win the biggest parliamentary majority for a French president since Charles de Gaulle’s 1968 landslide, a survey of voter intentions for the coming legislative elections showed on Tuesday.
