Human rights, courts under serious strain in EU: rights body
VIENNA (Reuters) – Core human rights and the institutions that are meant to protect them are under serious pressure across the European Union as it struggles with a large influx of migrants and refugees, the head of the EU’s Agency for Fundamental Righ…
U.S., China discuss ‘mutually beneficial’ economic relationship
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi on Tuesday discussed improving and maintaining a “mutually beneficial economic relationship” between the United States and China, the State Department …
Russia, China block U.N. sanctions on Syria over gas attacks
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia on Tuesday cast its seventh veto to protect the Syrian government from United Nations Security Council action, blocking a bid by Western powers to impose sanctions over accusations of chemical weapons attacks during th…
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.
