UK says to use Merkel visit to push curbs to ‘welfare shopping’
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Sunday it planned to use a visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel this week to try to persuade Berlin to support measures to discourage people from moving within the European Union to tap welfare benefits.
Yemen stops printing leading southern opposition newspaper
ADEN (Reuters) – Yemeni authorities have prevented a local newspaper linked to southern separatists from being printed at a government-owned press in Aden, editors said on Sunday, in a move that led to a protest in the port city.
Swiss minister says EU threats over immigration overblown
ZURICH (Reuters) – Switzerland’s defense minister said it was “unthinkable” that his country’s accords with the European Union would be terminated as result of a referendum to curb immigration, saying threats of retaliation by the bloc were overblown.
Guinea-Bissau postpones elections again to April
BISSAU (Reuters) – Guinea-Bissau’s long-delayed legislative and presidential election, intended to draw under a 2012 military coup, has been postponed again to April 13 from March 16, according to decree signed by the West African nation’s interim pres…
Car bomb kills 14 in Syrian town on Turkish border: activists
AMMAN (Reuters) – At least 14 people were killed and 70 wounded in a car bombing on Sunday near a field hospital in a Syrian town on the border with Turkey that serves as a main supply line for rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad, activists said….
Thousands march in Hong Kong against erosion of media freedoms
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Thousands rallied outside Hong Kong’s government headquarters on Sunday demanding the city’s leader uphold media freedoms amid growing anger towards perceived behind-the-scenes intrusions on local media outlets.
U.S. now bugging German ministers in place of Merkel: report
BERLIN (Reuters) – The National Security Agency (NSA) has stepped up its surveillance of senior German government officials since being ordered by Barack Obama to halt its spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel, Bild am Sonntag paper reported on Sunday.
West faces daunting task to rescue Ukraine after uprising
PARIS (Reuters) – Western nations face a daunting task to help stabilize a near bankrupt Ukraine after a popular uprising toppled its Russian-backed president, and will need to placate a wounded Moscow.
Egypt food supply shake-up sees official referred to prosecutors
CAIRO (Reuters) – A shake-up of Egypt’s food import and storage authorities has seen an official from its main food buying agency referred to prosecutors over suspected corruption on local rice deals, while the head of its silos and storage holding com…
Gunmen snatch militants from Bangladesh prison van, kill policeman
DHAKA (Reuters) – Gunmen opened fire and tossed bombs on Sunday at a prison van carrying detained militants of a banned Islamist movement to a court house, killing a policeman and freeing three activists, police and witnesses said.
