Italy’s new PM Renzi faces first parliamentary test
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi faces his first test before a fractious national parliament when he goes before the Senate on Monday to put flesh on his ambitious reform plans and seek to win a confidence vote in his newly installe…
Exclusive: China, eyeing Japan, seeks WW2 focus for Xi during Germany visit
BEIJING (Reuters) – China wants to make World War Two a key part of a trip by President Xi Jinping to Germany next month, much to Berlin’s discomfort, diplomatic sources said, as Beijing tries to use German atonement for its wartime past to embarrass J…
U.S. to seek extradition of Mexican drug kingpin Guzman
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors plan to seek the extradition of Mexico’s most wanted man, drug cartel kingpin Joaquin “Shorty” Guzman, to face trial in the United States after he was captured in Mexico.
Syrian rebel, friend of al Qaeda leader, killed by rival Islamists
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A Syrian rebel commander who fought alongside al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden and was close to its current chief, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was killed by a suicide attack on Sunday, intensifying infighting between rival Islamist fighters.
Estonia’s PM to resign as parties prepare for 2015 vote
TALLINN (Reuters) – Estonia’s Prime Minister Andrus Ansip said on Sunday he would submit his and his government’s resignation to the country’s president on March 4, with slightly more than a year to go before parliamentary elections.
American-Israeli prisoner killed in jail battle with police
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli police shot dead an American-Israeli prisoner on Sunday after he wounded three guards with a pistol at a jail near Tel Aviv, police said.
Seventeen dead in bombings and shootings in Iraq
TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) – At least 17 people were killed and dozens wounded in bombings and shootings in northern Iraq and Baghdad on Sunday, police and medical sources said.
Pakistan jets pound militant hideouts, killing 38
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani fighter jets attacked suspected militant hideouts in tribal areas on the Afghan border on Sunday, killing at least 38 insurgents, officials said, in the third air strike in recent days.
Polls show Scots becoming more skeptical about independence
LONDON (Reuters) – Scots are becoming more skeptical about the idea of Scotland becoming independent of the United Kingdom, two polls showed on Sunday, delivering a setback to nationalists who want the small country to call off its 307-year-old union w…
Activists say Syrian security forces abduct prominent dissident
AMMAN (Reuters) – Akram al-Bunni, a prominent leftist writer and former political prisoner, was abducted by Syrian intelligence agents as he left a wedding reception at a Damascus hotel on Saturday, opposition activists said.
