Dutch government to face possible no confidence vote over Greece
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The government of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is expected to face a call for a no-confidence vote from euro-sceptic, right-wing rival Geert Wilders, when parliament debates the latest bailout program for Greece on Wednesday.
Islamic State militants behead archaeologist in Palmyra: Syrian official
DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Islamic State (IS) militants beheaded an antiquities scholar in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra and hung his body on a column in a main square of the historic site, Syria’s antiquities chief said on Tuesday.
U.S. military probe of Afghan shooting found Bales’ camp had lax discipline
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The month before he killed 16 Afghan civilians in a shooting rampage, Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales bloodied the nose of an Afghan truck driver in an assault that was not reported to his camp commanders, according to a report …
Europe struggles to respond as migrants numbers rise threefold
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – More than three times as many migrants were tracked entering the European Union by irregular means last month than a year ago, official data showed on Tuesday, many of them landing on Greek islands after fleeing conflict in Syria.
Turkey faces fractious interim rule as PM gives up on forming new govt
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu formally ended attempts to form the next government on Tuesday after weeks of coalition talks failed, raising the prospect of a fractious interim administration leading the country to a new elec…
Saudi-led warplanes hit Yemeni port, aid group sounds alarm
SANAA (Reuters) – Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition hit Yemen’s Red Sea port of Hodeida on Tuesday, and officials there said the raids destroyed cranes and warehouses in the main entry point for aid supplies to the north of the country.
Iraq’s Maliki rejects blame for fall of Mosul
BAGHDAD/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Iraq’s former prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, on Tuesday denounced as worthless a parliamentary report which blamed him and others for the fall of Mosul to Islamic State last year and called for them to be referred to the jud…
Turkish PM returns mandate to form government to President Erdogan
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu officially returned the mandate to form a government to President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday, the presidency said in a statement, after failing to find a junior coalition partner for his AK Party…
Ukrainian, French, German, leaders to meet Monday in Berlin
PARIS (Reuters) – The leaders of France, Germany and Ukraine are to meet in Berlin on Monday in a bid to bring an end to a new wave of violence in Ukraine, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said.
Feeling strain, Germany set to raise asylum-seeker forecast to 750,000
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government will sharply raise its forecast for the number of asylum-seekers expected to arrive this year to a record-breaking 750,000, coalition sources said on Tuesday.
