Italy and France hit back at Merkel over economic reforms call
BERLIN (Reuters) – Italy and France expressed irritation on Sunday with a call from Chancellor Angela Merkel for them to do more to bring their budgets into line with EU rules, telling the German leader to focus on her own economic woes instead of lect…
Seventy Ethiopian migrants drown off Red Sea coast of Yemen
SANAA (Reuters) – At least 70 Ethiopians drowned when a boat used by smugglers to transport illegal migrants to Yemen sank in the Red Sea in rough weather, security authorities in the western part of the country said on Sunday.
U.S. hands Pakistan senior militant detained in Afghanistan
KABUL/DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) – The United States has handed to Pakistan three prisoners including a senior Taliban militant held in Afghanistan, as Washington rushes to empty its Afghan prison before losing the legal right to detain peopl…
Israel strikes near the Syrian capital: Syrian TV
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian state television said on Sunday that Israeli jets had bombed areas near Damascus international airport and in the town of Dimas, near the border with Lebanon.
Leave or let live? Arabs move in to Jewish settlements
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Little noticed amid the furor over one of Israel’s most contentious policies, a small but growing number of Arabs are moving into Jewish settlements on occupied land in East Jerusalem, drawn by cheaper rent and better services.
Majority of Germans want Merkel to run for fourth term: poll
BERLIN (Reuters) – A majority of Germans want Angela Merkel to run for a fourth term as Chancellor and nearly three in four believe she would like to remain in office beyond 2017, when her current term ends, a new poll shows.
Homes flattened as typhoon roars through Philippines
MANILA (Reuters) – A powerful, slow-moving typhoon ripped through the central Philippines on Sunday, bringing howling winds that flattened houses and toppled trees and power lines in areas still scarred from a deadly super-storm just over a year ago.
Modi seeks to replace central planning with ‘Team India’
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a brainstorming session on Sunday on replacing Soviet-style central planning with a ‘Team India’ concept that would give federal states a greater role in developing Asia’s third-largest eco…
Pope calls for stability in Argentina ahead of election: media
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentines across the political spectrum should work to maintain stability ahead of October’s presidential election, Pope Francis said in an interview published on Sunday by La Nacion, one of the South American country’s top ne…
Anti-Semitic incidents on rise in France, says minister
PARIS (Reuters) – Anti-Semitic threats and incidents have more than doubled so far this year in France, said the interior minister at a rally on Sunday to protest a violent attack on a young Jewish couple.
