Grillo boosted by local elections in Italy but Renzi party holds
ROME (Reuters) – Beppe Grillo’s 5-Star Movement won control of one of the historic strongholds of the Italian left in local elections at the weekend, although Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s center-left Democratic Party (PD) stayed Italy’s strongest poli…
Fear, loathing sully debate on Scottish independence
EDINBURGH (Reuters) – Retired military general Norman Arthur represented Queen Elizabeth in his Scottish neighborhood and is passionate that the country should remain part of the United Kingdom. Stuart Campbell, a pro-independence campaigner based hund…
Libyan parliament to respect court ruling that PM vote unconstitutional: speaker
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libya’s parliament will respect a Supreme Court ruling that the election of Ahmed Maiteeq as prime minister was unconstitutional, a deputy speaker said on Monday.
‘Patriot’s handbook’ may give insight into Putin’s thoughts
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Oleg Makarenko wants to set the story straight and answer the “Russophobes” who he says are trying to split and humiliate Russia.
Egypt PM Mehleb expected to retain position in new government: sources
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb is expected to retain his position in the new government, two government sources said on Monday, a day after Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was sworn in as president.
North Korea threatens ‘plot-breeding’ U.N. rights office with ‘punishment’
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea on Monday threatened a planned U.N. field office in South Korea set up to investigate human rights abuses in the isolated country, saying anyone involved would be “ruthlessly punished”.
China says Vietnam, Philippines’ mingling on disputed isle a ‘farce’
BEIJING (Reuters) – China denounced Vietnam and the Philippines on Monday for getting together on a disputed island in the South China Sea to play soccer and volleyball, calling it “a clumsy farce” and demanded both countries stop causing trouble.
U.S. deaths in Afghanistan may have only tenuous link to Bergdahl
WASHINGTON/KABUL (Reuters) – The frantic search for Bowe Bergdahl began the moment his comrades discovered he was no longer inside the fragile outpost in a rock-strewn valley in one of the most hostile corners of Afghanistan.
Indian river bathers swept away as dam releases water, four dead
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian rescuers were searching on Monday for 20 students and a professor swept away by waters released from a dam while the group was bathing in a river in the mountainous northern state of Himachal Pradesh.
Chinese party newspaper says Western democracy only brings chaos
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s top newspaper on Monday warned against aping Western-style democracy just a week after the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, pointing to Thailand and Ukraine as examples of the kind of chaos the system can bring.
