Ukraine unlikely to receive IMF loan tranche this year: finance minister
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine is unlikely to receive a second tranche of a $17-billion loan program from the International Monetary Fund this year as expected, Finance Minister Oleksander Shlapak said on Tuesday, in the latest economic blow to the debt-ridd…
Ukraine unlikely to receive IMF loan tranche this year: finance minister
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine is unlikely to receive a second tranche of a $17-billion loan program from the International Monetary Fund this year as expected, Finance Minister Oleksander Shlapak said on Tuesday, in the latest economic blow to the debt-ridd…
China unveils legal reform plans, but says party to remain in control
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Communist Party pledged on Tuesday to speed up legislation to fight corruption and make it tougher for officials to exert control over the judiciary, even as it stressed full control over the courts.
Only Syrian opposition and peshmerga can save Kobani: Turkish PM
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey cannot be expected to send troops to defend the besieged Syrian border town of Kobani and only Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters and Syria’s own moderate opposition can save it, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.
Afghan forces prepare to fight alone as foreign troops leave
HELMAND/KANDAHAR AIR FIELD Afghanistan (Reuters) – On watch for a possible Taliban attack, Afghan forces on Tuesday patrolled the perimeter and manned guard towers of a vast military base deserted by U.S. and British forces in a volatile southern provi…
MH17 investigators still awaiting U.S., Russian intelligence reports
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch prosecutors are still awaiting U.S. intelligence reports on the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 but American laws on passing on such information to criminal investigations are complicating the process, the Dutch gover…
Israel to buy 25 more F-35 Lockheed stealth fighters: sources
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel plans to buy a second batch of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 stealth fighter jets, bringing the total number it has on order to about 44, Israeli defence sources said on Tuesday.
French government urges lawmakers to vote welfare cuts before EU verdict
PARIS (Reuters) – The French government urged rebel Socialist lawmakers on Tuesday to back cuts made to the 2015 social security budget, a day before the European Commission’s verdict on France’s deficit-cutting plans.
China Communist Party says opposes ‘external forces’ in Hong Kong
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Communist Party said on Tuesday it aims to prevent “external forces” intervening in Hong Kong and Macau, the official Xinhua news agency reported via its microblog.
Mexico arrests four gang members in students’ disappearance
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican authorities on Monday said they had arrested four drug gang members involved in the kidnapping of dozens of student teachers who disappeared last month and are feared massacred.
