Swiss may decide their own limits on migrants from EU without Brussels: foreign minister
GENEVA (Reuters) – Switzerland will draw up its own plans for limiting the flow of migrants from the European Union if it can not reach agreement with Brussels on the issue before a February 2017 deadline, the foreign minister said on Monday.
Suicide bomber kills four in Yemen’s Aden city: security source, residents
ADEN (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed four soldiers on Monday when he rammed a car laden with explosives into a military checkpoint in Aden, residents and a security official said.
Brazil justice minister to resign: presidency source
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s Justice Minister Jose Eduardo Cardoso plans to resign by Tuesday, a presidency source told Reuters on Monday.
Woman charged with murder after brandishing child’s severed head in Moscow
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian police wrestled to the ground a woman in a hijab brandishing the severed head of a child outside a Moscow metro station on Monday and charged her with murder, in an incident that stirred fears of an Islamist terrorist attack….
U.S. warns citizens to be ready to leave Iraq if Mosul dam collapses
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – The United States warned its citizens to be ready to leave Iraq in the event of what it has said could be a catastrophic collapse of the country’s largest hydro-electric dam near Mosul.
South African police says there is ‘no case’ against finance minister Gordhan
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan is not being investigated by the police’s special crime unit for his role in a spy unit in the revenue services and there is no case against him, a police spokesman said on Tuesday…
Bolivian president’s woes deepen as ex-girlfriend is held
LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivian President Evo Morales, fresh from his first major electoral defeat in last week’s referendum on extending his rule, is facing a deepening scandal over his ties to a woman who was held by police over the weekend.
U.S. leads 24 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq, Syria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and its allies conducted 24 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Sunday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement released on Monday.
Denmark PM names two new ministers after avoiding snap vote
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen named two new ministers on Monday after a scandal that forced the resignation of his environment minister to avoid a snap election.
Britain’s EU deal — hollow or substantial?
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – As Britons prepare to vote in a June referendum on whether to stay in the European Union, some of the argument turns on the significance of a package of EU reforms secured by Prime Minister David Cameron.
