Italian leader Renzi wins confidence vote over budget
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Friday won a confidence vote in the Senate on next year’s budget that scraps a hated tax on primary residences and slows deficit reduction.
Syrian opposition say working towards Saudi meet, but no date set
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian opposition figures said on Friday efforts were under way to hold a conference in Saudi Arabia aimed at unifying President Bashar al-Assad’s opponents, but that no date had yet been set, after a report it would take place mid-D…
Under pressure as never before, Merkel marks 10 years in office
BERLIN (Reuters) – People who have witnessed Angela Merkel in private over the past weeks describe a changed woman.
Balkan border controls leave migrants in limbo: aid agencies
GENEVA (Reuters) – New border controls in the western Balkans are leaving thousands in limbo as winter sets in, aid agencies said on Friday.
Bus driver who turned Paris attacker skipped police watch
PARIS/DRANCY, France (Reuters) – One of the attackers who blew himself up in Paris’s Bataclan concert hall had missed at least three weekly check-ins with French police who were investigating him on suspicion of terrorism-related activity.
Portugal’s ousted PM says Socialist government proposal unstable
LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s caretaker premier told the president on Friday that the Socialists, who ousted him last week, must come up with a more viable proposal than a minority government with unreliable parliamentary support from the far left.
Argentine voters weigh possible sharp turn toward free markets
SAN JUSTO, Argentina (Reuters) – Argentineans heading to the polls on Sunday face a choice between a sharp turn toward free markets and extending a 12-year run of interventionist policies by outgoing President Cristina Fernandez and her now-deceased hu…
France’s SNCF halts Strasbourg rail tests after fatal crash
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s SNCF railway has halted test runs on a new high-speed line to Strasbourg following a derailment that killed 11 people last weekend, delaying its likely entry into service.
Belgium continues to hold two of nine people detained on Thursday
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian authorities continued to hold two of the nine people detained on Thursday in a series of raids in Brussels related to the Paris attacks and one of the suicide bombers, federal prosecutors said on Friday.
Bomb attacks near mosque south of Baghdad kill nine
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – At least nine people were killed in bomb attacks on a Shi’ite Muslim mosque south of Baghdad on Friday, police and medics said.
