Spaniards’ apathy to repeat election casts uncertainty over outcome
MADRID (Reuters) – Sitting outside the scruffy political science faculty of Madrid’s Complutense University, Elena Jimenez is exactly the sort of dissatisfied Spaniard who was inspired to vote last December for new parties that promised a change.
Brazil’s Rousseff warned of illegal campaign donations, donor to say: paper
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Marcelo Odebrecht, the former chief executive of Latin America’s largest construction company, will admit in plea bargain testimony that he personally oversaw illegal campaign donations for suspended President Dilma Rousseff in 201…
U.S. aircraft carrier docks in Crete after Islamic State battles
(Reuters) – The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier arrived in Crete on Tuesday, giving its 5,500 crew members a Greek island break after seven months at sea and over 2,000 missions launched against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria.
Jordan’s king vows to hit back against attack near Syrian border
AMMAN (Reuters) – Jordan’s King Abdullah vowed to hit back “with an iron fist” against attackers who killed six army border guards with a car bomb near the frontier with Syria on Tuesday, a palace statement said.
U.S. to give Afghan forces $3 billion a year from 2018-2020: official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States plans to provide more than $3 billion a year in support for the Afghan national security forces from 2018 through 2020, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Olson said on Tuesday.
Egypt will decide on Tuesday if EgyptAir black boxes should be sent abroad for repairs: minister
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister Sherif Fathy said investigators will decide later on Tuesday whether the memory units of crashed EgyptAir flight MS804’s black box recorders will need to be sent abroad or could be repaired locally.
Congolese gets 18 years for Central African Republic war crimes
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Congolese politician Jean-Pierre Bemba was sentenced to 18 years in prison by the International Criminal Court on Tuesday for heading a 2002-03 campaign of rape and murder in neighboring Central African Republic.
Spain’s anti-austerity Unidos Podemos party eases stance on Catalonia
MADRID (Reuters) – The leader of Spain’s anti-austerity Unidos Podemos party suggested on Tuesday it would not insist on an independence referendum in Catalonia as a condition for forming a national government with rivals after Sunday’s election re-run…
Russia calls for swift resumption of Syria peace talks
GENEVA (Reuters) – Russia called on Tuesday for a swift resumption of stalled Syrian peace talks, saying it was the only way to halt “massive violations” of human rights perpetrated in the five-year-old conflict.
Duterte meets Philippine business elite: and talks about crime, again
DAVAO, Philippines (Reuters) – Incoming Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte skirted around his economic agenda in a talk to business top brass on Tuesday, telling them he was no economist and would prefer to discuss fighting crime.
