Brazil lawmakers pass spending cap in boost to Temer’s austerity drive
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s lower house of Congress approved a landmark proposal to cap public spending in a first-round vote on Monday, a major victory for President Michel Temer’s efforts to regain market confidence and pull the economy out of its …
German spy chief says Syrian suspect targeted Berlin airports
BERLIN (Reuters) – The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency (BfV) said a Syrian suspect arrested on Monday was building a bomb and probably planned to attack one of the airports in Berlin.
Russia and Turkey sign gas deal, seek common ground on Syria as ties warm
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey and Russia signed an agreement on Monday for the construction of a major undersea gas pipeline and vowed to seek common ground on the war in Syria, accelerating a normalization in ties nearly a year after Turkey shot down a …
Economists from Britain, Finland win Nobel for research on pay, rewards
STOCKHOLM/CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Reuters) – British-born Oliver Hart and Finland’s Bengt Holmstrom won the Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for work that addresses a host of questions from how best to reward executives to whether schools and prisons should …
Colombia’s Uribe presents proposals for peace accord changes
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe on Monday proposed that leaders of the Marxist FARC rebel group lose their freedom for at least five years and they would be banned from elected office as part of changes to a peace deal betwe…
China denies allegations its peacekeepers abandoned South Sudan posts
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s defense ministry has rejected as “malicious speculation” allegations by a U.S.-based group that Chinese peacekeepers had abandoned their posts in South Sudan in July instead of protecting civilians.
Shooting deaths, school closures worsen Rio crime wave
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Police killed at least two suspected drug traffickers on Monday during a day-long shootout in the hills overlooking one of Rio de Janeiro’s wealthiest districts, the latest in a wave of violent clashes that elsewhere in the c…
Crunch choice on new jet fighter looms over Tokyo air show
TOKYO (Reuters) – Faced with a growing North Korean threat and expanding Chinese power, Japan’s military and aerospace industry will use this week’s airshow in Tokyo to push the case to develop a highly advanced, and costly, stealth fighter jet.
Gabon doctor who cataloged post-electoral violence detained
DAKAR (Reuters) – A doctor in Gabon who helped treat and catalog injuries inflicted on protesters during the violent aftermath of a disputed August election has been detained for four days, a relative and rights activists said on Monday.
Yemen’s Houthis respond to air strike with missile attack
SANAA (Reuters) – Yemen’s Houthi movement launched a ballistic missile deep into Saudi Arabia and may have also fired on a U.S. warship, two days after an apparent Saudi-led air strike killed 140 mourners at a funeral attended by powerful tribal leader…
