Second accident mars Rio Carnival parade finale, 12 hurt
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – The top of a towering float collapsed during the final night of the parade by Rio’s elite samba troupes early on Tuesday, injuring 12 people in the second accident to mar Brazil’s glittering Carnival show.
New leftist splinter group could make life hard for Italy’s PM
ROME (Reuters) – A new breakaway leftist movement holds the balance of power in Italy’s upper house Senate, complicating life for Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni as he confronts an array of difficult economic decisions.
Watchdog scolds Netanyahu over handling of 2014 Gaza war
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was criticized on Tuesday by Israel’s main government watchdog over what it said was a lack of preparation and cabinet consultation over a network of Hamas tunnels that confounded the military in…
Turkish politicians must respect press freedom: German minister
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Justice Minister Heiko Maas on Tuesday criticized Turkey’s arrest of a German journalist and said politicians who wanted to visit Germany should respect press freedoms, amid reports of a possible trip by Turkish President Tayy…
‘Cowardly’ Tunisian security forces let down beach attack victims: UK inquiry
LONDON (Reuters) – “Cowardly” Tunisian security forces let down the victims of a shooting at a beach hotel, making “deliberate and unjustifiable” delays in their journey to the scene, a UK inquiry found on Tuesday.
The globetrotter confined: the hardening of Geert Wilders
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Since the evening in 2004 when policemen arrived unannounced to escort him and his wife to safety, Geert Wilders has lived in safe houses under 24-hour guard to protect him from Islamist militants who threatened to kill him.
U.N. urges aid access to Yemen ports to avert looming famine
DUBAI (Reuters) – A United Nations aid official visiting both sides in Yemen’s civil war has urged them to guarantee more access to the country’s ports to let food, fuel and medicine imports in to ward off a looming famine.
EU lawmakers vote to lift Marine Le Pen’s immunity over tweets
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union lawmakers “overwhelmingly” voted on Tuesday to lift the EU parliamentary immunity of French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen for tweeting pictures of Islamic State violence.
Israel removes settlers from homes on private Palestinian land
OFRA, West Bank (Reuters) – Israeli police began removing settlers and hundreds of supporters on Tuesday from nine houses built illegally on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.
South Korea suggests North’s suspension from U.N. over airport killing
GENEVA/KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – South Korea called for “collective measures” to punish North Korea for using chemical weapons to kill the estranged half-brother of its leader Kim Jong Un, as Malaysia said on Tuesday it would charge two women with murde…
