Italy’s Renzi says he has found funding for tax cuts
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said on Tuesday he had found ways to fund a pledged 7 billion euro tax cut this year, moving to reassure sceptics and European officials that Italy does not plan to upend its public finances to fuel …
Fourteen killed in bomb blast on Pakistani train
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Fourteen passengers were killed and about 50 wounded on Tuesday when militants bombed a train in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province, hospital sources and officials said.
Pistorius breaks down as he recounts Steenkamp’s death
PRETORIA (Reuters) – South African Olympic and Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius sobbed in the witness stand on Tuesday as he described how, gripped by fear, he shot dead his girlfriend through a locked toilet door thinking she was an intruder.
Tit-for-tat gestures would replace Middle East talks
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – If Middle East peace talks collapse this month, lawfare rather than warfare looks likely to fill the void, with the Palestinians set to confront Israel on the diplomatic stage rather than in any popular uprising.
U.S. defense chief gets earful as China visit exposes tensions
BEIJING (Reuters) – Tensions between China and the United States were on full display on Tuesday as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel faced questions in Beijing about America’s position in bitter territorial disputes with regional U.S. allies.
Libya cabinet calls for new government within week, turmoil deepens
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s parliament has urged Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni to form a new government within a week, an assembly spokesman said on Tuesday, apparently rejecting a cabinet request for more powers to tackle the disorder crippling th…
Germany ushers in renewable energy reform
BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet approved on Tuesday a reform of Germany’s renewable energy law designed to curb a rise in the cost of electricity in Europe’s biggest economy driven by the rapid expansion of green power.
UK says investigating spy and police agencies’ use of private data
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies may be overusing authorisations to access private communications data, the official who regulates the activity said on Tuesday, declaring he had begun an investigation into the matt…
German cabinet gives go-ahead to dual citizenship
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government on Tuesday signed off on a draft law that will allow young Germans of foreign origin to have dual citizenship, a move that relaxes some of Europe’s strictest nationality laws and will benefit the large Turkish c…
Gunmen kill five soldiers at Yemen checkpoint
ADEN/SANAA (Reuters) – Suspected militants killed five soldiers guarding a checkpoint in southeastern Yemen on Tuesday, local officials said, and a leader of a Shi’ite Muslim party was wounded in a drive-by shooting in the capital Sanaa in which two gu…
