Popular French PM Valls loses shine as approval ratings slips
PARIS (Reuters) – French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has slipped below a 50 percent approval rating for the first time since he was nominated in a March cabinet reshuffle, a poll showed on Sunday, as President Francois Hollande remained deeply unpopula…
‘Europe’s got talent’, or how not to fill top EU jobs
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – If “Europe’s Got Talent” were a television show, it would have been taken off the screen years ago as a slow-motion contest rigged to reward mediocrity.
Top Kurdish security official warns West of Iraq blowback
ARBIL Iraq (Reuters) – Western countries will end up fighting insurgents who have overrun large parts of Iraq on their own doorstep unless they intervene to combat the threat at its source, a senior Kurdish security official said in an interview.
Iran warned of ‘last chance’ in nuclear talks after deadline missed
VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran faced Western pressure on Saturday to make concessions over its atomic activities after it and six world powers failed to meet a July 20 deadline for a deal to end the decade-old dispute but agreed to keep talking.
Ukraine, rebels argue over wreck; Europeans give Putin ‘last chance’
HRABOVE/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukraine accused Russia and pro-Moscow rebels on Saturday of destroying evidence to cover up their guilt in the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner that has accelerated a showdown between the Kremlin and Western pow…
Tunisia orders crackdown after militants kill 14 soldiers
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia on Saturday launched a crackdown on mosques and radio stations associated with hardline Islamists after militants killed 14 soldiers in an area near the country’s border with Algeria.
Two Israeli soldiers die in Gaza clash; Palestinian toll tops 300
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Two Israeli soldiers were killed in a cross-border attack by Hamas militants on Saturday, the army said, as the Palestinian death toll from the conflict rose above 300 with no diplomatic solution in sight.
Ukraine, rebels argue over wreck; Europeans give Putin ‘last chance’
HRABOVE/DONETSK Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukraine accused Russia and pro-Moscow rebels on Saturday of destroying evidence to cover up their guilt in the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner that has accelerated a showdown between the Kremlin and Western pow…
Gunmen kill 21 Egyptian military border guards near Libya
CAIRO (Reuters) – Gunmen killed 21 Egyptian military border guards near the frontier with Libya on Saturday, highlighting a growing threat from an area that security officials say has become a haven for militants seeking to topple the Cairo government….
Wave of bombings in Baghdad kills 27 people: police, medics
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – At least 27 people were killed in a wave of bombings in mostly Shi’ite Muslim areas of Baghdad on Saturday, police and medics said, in the deadliest day of attacks in the capital since a Sunni insurgency overran large parts of Iraq’…
