Algeria’s ailing Bouteflika wins re-election
ALGIERS (Reuters) – Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the independence veteran in power for 15 years, won re-election on Friday with more than 80 percent of a vote opponents dismissed as fraud to keep an ailing leader in power.
Top Hollande aide quits in conflict of interest row
CLERMONT-FERRAND, France (Reuters) – A senior adviser to French President Francois Hollande quit on Friday over accusations of past conflict of interest linked to his work for pharmaceutical firms, adding to pressure on the unpopular Socialist leader w…
Italy PM Renzi cuts taxes for 10 million low earners
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Friday cut taxes for 10 million low earners to try to boost household spending after a two-year recession, making good on a promise he made after taking office two months ago.
Special Report: How the U.S. made its Putin problem worse
WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK (Reuters) – In September 2001, as the U.S. reeled from the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Vladimir Putin supported Washington’s imminent invasion of Afghanistan in ways that would have been inconce…
Italy gives wife, daughter, of wanted Kazakh banker refugee status
ROME (Reuters) – The wife and daughter of a Kazakh tycoon who is wanted in three countries for alleged fraud have been granted refugee status in Italy, their lawyer said on Friday.
Pakistani police arrest 6 suspected militant assassins
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani police said on Friday they have arrested six men suspected of being behind a string of high-profile killings and assassination attempts linked to a banned sectarian group.
Erdogan challenges social media in top Turkish court
ANKARA (Reuters) – Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan applied to Turkey’s constitutional court on Friday to challenge the alleged violation of his and his family’s rights by social media, a senior official in his office told Reuters.
Bomb blast kills 14 at mosque in Syria’s Homs – state TV
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A bomb went off in front of a mosque and killed 14 people in Homs, Syrian state television said on Friday, with forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad looking close to wresting the symbolic central city back from rebels.
Besieged Muslims face murder, starvation in Central African Republic town
BODA, Central African Republic (Reuters) – In normal times, the rickety wooden bridges at each end of the red-dirt main street in Boda were gateways to shops and a bustling market in the diamond-mining town in western Central African Republic.
Bahraini man dies two months after being shot by police: family
MANAMA (Reuters) – A Bahraini man died on Friday from shotgun pellet wounds sustained during clashes with police almost two months ago, rights activists said, becoming the first person to be killed in such circumstances since February last year.
