Immigration boosts wealth, does not increase inequality: IMF
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Immigration has a generally positive economic impact on receiving countries but the benefits depend on how well the migrants are integrated, the International Monetary Fund’s First Deputy Managing Director David Lipton said on Mond…
Turkish police fire tear gas at protest against stronger presidency
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of people outside parliament on Monday protesting against planned changes to the constitution that would expand the powers of President Tayyip Erdogan.
After U.S. intel report on Putin, British government launches cyber security review
LONDON (Reuters) – The British government said on Monday it is launching a national inquiry into cyber security to assess the extent to which the UK is protected from an ever-increasing tide of attacks worldwide.
Some Gulf Arabs commiserate over Iran’s Rafsanjani, Saudi silent
DUBAI (Reuters) – Four Gulf states sent condolences on Monday for former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, signaling appreciation for a pragmatist who sought regional detente, but there was no immediate word from Riyadh, Tehran’s main Gul…
Philippines says finalizing deal to observe Russian military drills
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines is finalizing a security deal with Russia allowing the two countries’ leaders to exchange visits and observe military drills, a minister said on Monday, at the same time assuring the United States that ties with Mosco…
German investigators find only pilot Lubitz at fault in Germanwings crash
DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) – German prosecutors have decided that nobody other than pilot Andreas Lubitz could be held accountable for the crash of a Germanwings plane in March 2015, a spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office said on Monday.
Uzbekistan postpones plan to liberalize entry visa rules
TASHKENT (Reuters) – Uzbekistan announced on Monday that it was delaying by four years a plan to allow tourists from dozens of countries to visit without an entry visa, with security cited as one of the reasons for the postponement.
Give us back our troop carriers, Singapore urges Hong Kong
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore’s defence minister on Monday said the nine armoured vehicles seized in Hong Kong could not be detained or confiscated, but that he welcomed Hong Kong’s pledge for the dispute to be handled in line with its laws.
Myanmar warns its workers in Malaysia after five hacked to death
YANGON/KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Myanmar said on Monday it had sent out safety instructions to its workers in Malaysia after attackers hacked five of them to death with swords, weeks after it barred workers from going there, partly because of security f…
Poland retracts from curbing media access to parliament
WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish ruling party has retracted from its proposals to limit media access to the country’s parliament, speaker of the upper house said on Monday, adding that the party wants to resolve the ongoing parliamentary crisis conciliatory.
