Leaked letter adds intrigue, confusion to Vatican bishops meeting
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – A gathering of world Roman Catholic bishops was thrown into confusion on Monday with the leak of a letter from conservative cardinals to Pope Francis bitterly complaining that the meeting was stacked against them.
Deaton wins economics Nobel Prize for work on consumption, poverty
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Economist Angus Deaton has won the 2015 economics Nobel Prize for his work on consumption, poverty and welfare that has helped governments to improve policy through tools such as household surveys and tax changes.
No fuel delivered to Yemen despite president’s pledge: U.N.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Yemen only received one percent of its monthly commercial fuel needs in September and there have been no shipments since the war-torn country’s president pledged to the United Nations a week ago to allow deliveries, the world…
Two Tunisian soldiers killed in clashes with militants
TUNIS (Reuters) – Two Tunisian soldiers were killed and four others wounded in clashes on Monday with militants in a mountainous area near the border with Algeria, an army spokesman said.
German conservatives agree on ‘transit zones’ for refugees
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and her Bavarian allies have agreed on a plan to set up “transit zones” at the border to filter out migrants who clearly have no chance of gaining asylum, Bavarian Premier Horst Seehofe…
Latest attempt to end Guinea-Bissau’s political crisis collapses
BISSAU (Reuters) – Guinea-Bissau’s prime minister said talks with the president aimed at forming a new government and ending two months of political deadlock had collapsed on Monday.
Mexico ramps up surveillance to fight crime, but controls lax
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Government surveillance requests are gathering pace in Mexico, raising concerns about lack of oversight in a country plagued by corruption and collusion between security forces and criminal gangs.
Iraqi Kurdish PM fires four ministers after violent unrest: spokesman
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – The prime minister of Iraq’s Kurdistan region has removed four members of his cabinet, a spokesman said on Monday, in an escalating political crisis that threatens to destabilize the relatively peaceful region.
Cameron’s EU referendum unsettles some British expatriates in the Spanish sun
FUENGIROLA, Spain (Reuters) – For some sun-seeking Britons, a cloud has formed over the whitewashed villages, beach bars and golf courses of Spain – the risk that Britain will drop out of the European Union.
Bumpy road ahead for U.N.-proposed Libya peace deal
ALGIERS/TRIPOLI (Reuters) – After months of stalled negotiations, the United Nations has handed Libya’s warring factions a unity government proposal in what it calls a major step towards ending the crisis, but the applause of Western officials cannot d…
