Italian police break up mafia drug ring in Rome, arresting 26
ROME (Reuters) – Rome police broke up a mafia drug ring with links to Colombian narcotics gangs on Tuesday, arresting 26 people and seizing more than 600 kg (1,300 pounds) of cocaine and hashish.
Turkish police launch wiretapping raids targeting Erdogan foes
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish police detained 23 people suspected of a role in illegal wiretapping on Tuesday in a move local media said was aimed at supporters of President Tayyip Erdogan’s ally-turned-foe, U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.
India court orders govt to release Greenpeace funds
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – An Indian court has ordered the government to release blocked funds of Greenpeace India, the environmental group said in a statement on Tuesday, months after being accused of running campaigns that were hurting Asia’s third-larges…
Vote of no-confidence in Swedish PM fails
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – A vote of no-confidence in Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven failed as widely expected on Tuesday, bolstering his minority government and boosting the chance he will be able to push through a budget in spring.
Turks, Kurds push for peace breakthrough despite new surge in violence
ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) – A spate of killings, a looming general election and war next door in Syria are complicating efforts to end the 30-year Kurdish insurgency in Turkey just as a breakthrough in peace talks looks close.
Most governments conceal data despite G20 pledges, study says
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Myanmar, Haiti and Mali were ranked the least open and transparent countries in a global index of government data released on Tuesday, which found that most governments do not make official data openly available to…
Greece to extradite Algerian man linked to attack in Belgium
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece will swiftly extradite a 33-year-old Algerian man who may be linked to a foiled Islamist militant plot to attack police in Belgium, court officials said on Tuesday, after Brussels issued an arrest warrant.
Indonesia proposes changes to aviation rules after AirAsia crash
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s transport minister proposed a number of changes to improve aviation safety standards at a parliamentary hearing on Tuesday, just over three weeks after an AirAsia passenger jet crashed killing all 162 people on board.
France must tackle ‘social and ethnic apartheid’: PM
PARIS (Reuters) – Deadly shootings by homegrown Islamists have cast a light on France’s “geographical, social and ethnic apartheid”, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Tuesday in one of the starkest indictments of French society by a government figure…
Human Rights Watch cites police abuse of migrants in French port
PARIS (Reuters) – African migrants camped in the northern French port of Calais in hopes of eventually reaching Britain are subject to police beatings and harassment, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday.
