Brazil speaker faces ethics hearings over Swiss bank accounts
BRASILIA (Reuters) – A Brazilian Congressional ethics committee on Thursday picked a first-term legislator to lead an investigation into secret Swiss bank accounts allegedly held by Eduardo Cunha, the speaker of the lower house.
Britain says resuming flights from Sharm al-Sheikh to UK
(Reuters) – Britain will resume flights from the Egyptian resort of Sharm al-Sheikh on Friday after agreeing on additional security measures with Cairo, the prime minister’s office said.
As barbs fly, Macri team says no need to fear Argentina devaluation
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentine presidential challenger Mauricio Macri’s campaign fought back on Thursday against ruling party claims that his plan to remove currency controls would unleash a sharp devaluation, saying it would instead reboot the ail…
Netanyahu’s new media chief has called Obama anti-Semitic, Kerry ‘comical’
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – He has accused Barack Obama of anti-Semitism, suggested his own country’s president was not important enough to assassinate and described U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry as having the mental abilities of a 12-year-old.
Five injured in factory explosion in Romania
BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Five people were injured in an explosion at a bread factory in the central Romanian city of Brasov late on Thursday and firefighters were trying to extract a person from the rubble, Deputy Interior Minister Raed Arafat said.
Finnish PM says government could collapse on Friday
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila said his center-right government could collapse unless the coalition agrees on health care reform by Friday morning.
Syrian rebels seize town in west in blow to government
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Insurgents captured a town on a major highway in western Syria on Thursday, in a blow to the Russian-backed campaign against them, rebels and a monitoring group said.
Poland’s communist-era interior minister Kiszczak dead at 90
WARSAW (Reuters) – Czeslaw Kiszczak, who as interior minister in communist Poland in the 1980s helped oversee the imposition of martial law and the crackdown on the pro-democracy Solidarity trade union, died on Thursday aged 90.
Tripoli faction seeks relaunch of Libya talks, says U.N. envoy biased
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s self-proclaimed government in Tripoli wants a relaunch of U.N.-sponsored talks aimed at ending the country’s civil war because it says the outgoing U.N. envoy is biased in favor of an internationally recognized rival adminis…
Spain could clean up its act quickly, says rising party Ciudadanos
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s prospects could be turned around with a “big bang” at the start of a new parliament, zeroing in on ending corruption, overhauling education and creating jobs, the Ciudadanos party said as it campaigned ahead of December’s vot…
