Italy’s Renzi faces fight for political life after vote setback
ROME (Reuters) – “Italy should be proud of having a leader like him,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said as he sat alongside Prime Minister Matteo Renzi last week. Mayoral elections on Sunday suggested Italians think otherwise.
EU to extend Russia sanctions, divided over next steps
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) – The European Union was divided on Monday over how to end a stand-off with Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine, as Britain called for governments to maintain their tough stance and Slovakia said the current sanctions policy was unte…
Balkan police arrest 13 for gang-related identity theft
SARAJEVO (Reuters) – Police in Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia arrested 13 people on Monday on suspicion of identity theft, seizing weapons and forged documents in a crackdown on Balkan criminal gangs.
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi reiterates stance on not using term ‘Rohingya’: official
YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has told the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights that the government will avoid using the term “Rohingya” to describe a persecuted Muslim minority in the country’s northwest, an official told Reute…
NATO’s Stoltenberg: EU sanctions on Russia should remain
TRONDHEIM, Norway (Reuters) – The European Union should keep in place the sanctions imposed on Russia over the Ukraine crisis, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told Reuters on Monday, a day after the German foreign minister said they should grad…
Six held in Belgium over train attack in 2015
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian police detained six people for questioning on Monday over an attack on a high-speed train as it traveled between Amsterdam and Paris in August 2015, prosecutors said.
Austrian officials worked around election law, court hears
VIENNA (Reuters) – Electoral officials broke one of Austria’s vote-counting rules in last month’s presidential poll because it was almost impossible to implement, witnesses told the Constitutional Court on Monday as it examined a challenge to the resul…
Congo declares yellow fever epidemic, 1,000 suspected cases
KINSHASA (Reuters) – Democratic Republic of Congo declared a yellow fever epidemic in three provinces including the capital Kinshasa on Monday after confirming 67 cases of the disease, with another 1,000 suspected cases being monitored.
Israeli minister unapologetic for security ‘profiling’ hailed by Trump
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A senior Israeli official justified the “profiling” of Muslims as potential security threats on Monday after U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump said Americans should adopt Israel’s disputed practice.
Three southeast Asian nations to designate shipping corridor in piracy battle
MANILA (Reuters) – Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines on Monday agreed to designate a transit corridor for commercial vessels crossing a maritime zone hit by a spate of hijackings by Islamist militants in the southern Philippines.
