Brazil in talks on gambling legalization amid fiscal crunch
SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s cash-strapped government is in talks with lawmakers over legalizing gambling to increase revenues as Congress balks at President Dilma Rousseff’s efforts to overcome a budget deficit by raising other taxes.
Pro-Kurdish ministers quit Turkish cabinet amid tension over violence
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey moved swiftly on Tuesday to replace two ministers from a pro-Kurdish party who quit its interim government amid rising tensions after a ceasefire with Kurdish militants collapsed in July.
With refugees, German Muslim minority could be Europe’s largest
BERLIN (Reuters) – When the flood of Middle Eastern refugees arriving in Europe finally ebbs and asylum-seekers settle down in their new homes, Germany could unexpectedly find itself housing the continent’s largest Muslim minority.
Pope’s U.S. visit to focus on use of power and needs of the poor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Pope Francis was to due to arrive in the United States on Tuesday bearing a message that the power and wealth that Washington symbolizes should be made to serve humanity, and not the other way around.
Venezuela pet shops, like supermarkets, struggle to stock shelves
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan pet shops are struggling to stock shelves with food and medicine due to economic crisis, forcing dog and cat owners to stretch feed and police to ration food for canine units.
Ceasefires extended in besieged Syrian towns: Hezbollah’s TV station
AMMAN (Reuters) – Warring parties have agreed to extend ceasefires in two Shi’ite Muslim towns in northwestern Syria and another settlement near the Lebanese border until a wider deal is reached, the al-Manar TV station controlled by Lebanon’s Hezbolla…
U.N. calls on Philippines to investigate killings of rights activists
MANILA (Reuters) – The United Nations on Tuesday called on the Philippine government to investigate immediately the killings of three human rights activists on a southern island affected by long-running armed conflict.
Rajapaksa criticizes U.N. findings on Sri Lanka war crimes
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s former president Mahinda Rajapaksa criticized on Tuesday the findings of a UN probe into war crimes and called on the government to reject the report, which called for suspects to be prosecuted by a hybrid court with int…
Iraqi Kurds reassert right to export oil to U.S. despite court ruling
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Kurdistan reasserted its right to export oil independently to the United States and other countries on Tuesday despite a court ruling in favor of the Iraqi federal government, which has sought to block crude sales from the auton…
France’s Le Pen to go on trial for anti-Muslim remarks
PARIS (Reuters) – French far-right party leader Marine Le Pen will go on trial for comparing Muslim street prayers to wartime Nazi occupation, party officials and the prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday.
