Exclusive: Brazil to ease foreign land ownership with restrictions: minister
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil should push through a bill in the first of half of this year to ease limits on foreign purchases of agricultural land in a bid to rekindle economic growth, the agriculture minister said in an interview, adding it would be ac…
Germany’s Gabriel condemned Berlin’s handling of Greece in letter: report
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel criticised the German government’s handling of Greece in a letter he wrote to Chancellor Angela Merkel last month, a newspaper reported on Thursday.
Scottish parliament to hold its own vote on triggering Brexit
EDINBURGH (Reuters) – Scotland’s devolved parliament will vote on the triggering of Article 50, which formally starts the process of Britain leaving the European Union, even though its vote is not binding, the pro-independence devolved government said …
Fillon bid for French presidency in chaos as MPs call on him to quit
PARIS (Reuters) – French presidential candidate Francois Fillon attempted to fight back on Thursday as pressure mounted on him to quit the race with some lawmakers from his own side urging him to drop his scandal-tainted bid to save the conservatives f…
Merkel urges Turkey’s Erdogan to uphold freedoms, allow dissent
ANKARA (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed the importance of freedom of opinion in talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday, during a visit meant to help improve frayed ties between the two NATO allies.
U.S., Germany must stick to shared values like religious freedom: Gabriel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Thursday that Germany wanted to keep working on the transatlantic relationship but that it was important for Germany and the United States to stick to shared values such as freedom o…
Iran to blind acid-attack woman in retribution punishment: Tasnim
ANKARA (Reuters) – Iran’s supreme court has ruled that a woman must be blinded in one eye as punishment for an acid attack that left her victim sightless, using the principle of “eye for an eye” of Islamic Sharia law, the semi-official Tasnim news agen…
Trump travel ban sparks protest in Rome
ROME (Reuters) – Protesters chanted outside the U.S. embassy in Rome on Thursday against President Donald Trump’s order to restrict entry into the United States for refugees and citizens of seven Muslim countries.
Libya’s Sarraj bargains for more EU money, support
BRUSSELS/VALLETTA (Reuters) – The head of the U.N.-backed Libyan government told top European Union officials on Thursday the bloc must provide more money and other assistance to secure Tripoli’s help in curbing the flow of African migrants to Europe.
Sweden says three arrested over attacks on asylum centers
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedish security police said on Thursday they had arrested three people on suspicion of involvement in three recent bomb attacks that targeted asylum centers and a left-wing bookshop.
