With change of tone, EU warms to Turkey, Serbia membership bids
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union revived Turkey’s membership bid on Monday and opened accession talks with Serbia, showing how a migration crisis and Russia’s presence in the Balkans has prompted the EU to rethink plans to stop expanding.
Argentina bus crash leaves 43 border patrol officers dead
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – A bus carrying Argentine border patrol officers blew a tire and tumbled from a bridge into a dry river bed in the northern province of Salta on Monday, killing 43 and injuring eight, authorities said.
Turkey says its patience with Russia ‘has a limit’: newspaper
ROME (Reuters) – Turkey’s foreign minister said Ankara’s patience with Russia “has a limit” after Moscow’s “exaggerated” reaction to a weekend naval incident between the two countries, an Italian newspaper reported on Monday.
Feuds and factions: no easy road to implementing Libya peace deal
ALGIERS/TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Fresh from a Rome summit on Libya’s crisis, American, European and U.N. officials are confidently backing a proposed peace deal between the country’s warring factions to end chaos that has allowed Islamic State to flourish.
Merkel rallies her party with pledge to stem refugee inflow
KARLSRUHE, Germany (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended her refugee policies at a congress of her conservative party on Monday, fending off a challenge from critics with a pledge to reduce the influx of migrants and a repeat of her opti…
Russia says Kerry, Lavrov agree on preconditions for next international Syria meeting
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s foreign ministry said on Monday that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov had agreed in a phone call on the preconditions necessary for another meeting of world powers on Syria.
Turkish troops leave Iraqi camp after Baghdad orders them out: sources
ANKARA (Reuters) – Some Turkish troops started leaving their camp in Iraq and moving north on Monday, a Turkish military source and a senior official said, days after Baghdad protested to the United Nations and ordered them out.
Teargassed Kosovo lawmakers adopt 2016 budget
PRISTINA (Reuters) – Protesting opposition lawmakers released tear gas in Kosovo’s parliament on Monday in an effort to foil a vote on the government’s 2016 budget, forcing MPs into a sideroom where the measure was adopted.
French teacher ‘invented’ story about Islamist attack: judicial source
PARIS (Reuters) – A teacher who had claimed he was assaulted in a school north of Paris by a man acting for Islamic State was making the story up, the Paris prosecutor’s office told Reuters on Monday.
Italian police seize 3,500 fake parchments with papal blessings
ROME (Reuters) – Italian police have confiscated about 3,500 counterfeit parchments bearing blessings by Pope Francis and being sold to pilgrims in Rome, authorities said on Monday.
