Germany’s SPD wants to woo voters with higher inheritance tax: draft manifesto
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Social Democrats aim to win back working-class voters by promising to increase inheritance tax for the rich and abolish a flat-rate tax on investment income, a draft of its election manifesto seen by Reuters showed on Monda…
Brazil’s Temer acknowledges pension reform still short on votes
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Michel Temer acknowledged on Monday that he may not have the votes at present to pass his pension reform bill in the lower house of Congress, and the key measure for fiscal savings might not face a floor vote un…
End of an era at UK’s Sun tabloid as veteran provocateur dropped
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s top-selling newspaper the Sun has turned a page in its colorful history by dropping provocative columnist Kelvin MacKenzie, a favorite of owner Rupert Murdoch, over an article that likened a soccer player to a gorilla.
Twenty migrants died in Mediterranean on Saturday: survivors to U.N
ROME (Reuters) – A total of around 20 migrants are feared to have died trying to cross the Mediterranean on Saturday, the United Nations refugee agency said, citing testimony from survivors arriving in Italy.
Dutch government coalition talks break down over immigration
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Talks between Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s conservative VVD Party and three other parties to form a centrist coalition broke down on Monday over a failure to agree on immigration policy, the official overseeing talks said.
Spanish police seize more than two tons of cocaine from ship
MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish police seized more than two tons of cocaine from a ship with a Venezuelan flag in the Atlantic Ocean and arrested the seven crew members, Spain’s interior ministry said on Monday.
U.S. says Syrians built crematorium at prison to dispose of bodies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has evidence Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government has built a crematorium at a large military prison outside the capital Damascus, a State Department official said on Monday.
Italy police take over four Lidl offices in mafia swoop
MILAN (Reuters) – Police in the Italian regions of Lombardy and Sicily arrested 15 people and put four management offices of supermarket chain Lidl under state control on Monday as part of a swoop on a mafia gang.
Tehran mayor Qalibaf quits presidential race, backs hardliner Raisi
LONDON (Reuters) – Tehran mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf quit Iran’s presidential race on Monday and said he would back hardline cleric Ebrahim Raisi in Friday’s vote.
Anti-Maduro protests persist in Venezuela, policeman shot dead
CARACAS (Reuters) – Opponents of President Nicolas Maduro staged sit-ins and roadblocks across Venezuela on Monday to press for elections, sparking new unrest that killed a policeman.
