Ruling French coalition split over Roma ejection call
PARIS (Reuters) – President Francois Hollande is battling to heal a rift in his ruling coalition over treatment of France’s Roma population after his interior minister said most of them should leave France.
Austrian ruling coalition faces far-right challenge in vote
VIENNA (Reuters) – Austrians voted in a parliamentary election on Sunday with a resurgent far right party challenging the political establishment and calling for an end to taxpayer-funded bailouts of struggling euro zone countries.
Britain’s Cameron hints at tax cuts, radical reform of EU ties
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron suggested his government would roll out further tax cuts to try to woo voters ahead of a 2015 election and said Britain may end up leaving the European Convention on Human Rights.
Sniper kills Egyptian soldier in the Sinai
ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) – A sniper shot dead an Egyptian soldier in the Sinai Peninsula, security sources said on Sunday, a region where al Qaeda-linked fighters have stepped up attacks on security forces since the army deposed elected Islamist presi…
Colombia leader rejects Jesse Jackson help in release of U.S. hostage
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s president rejected the involvement of U.S. civil rights activist Jesse Jackson in overseeing the release of a former U.S. Marine kidnapped by FARC rebels, saying on Saturday he would not allow the guerrillas a “media spect…
More than 30 still missing after Australia-bound refugee boat sank: police
JAKARTA (Reuters) – More than 30 people were still missing two days after a boat carrying asylum seekers to Australia sank off the Indonesian coast, killing 22 people including seven children, Indonesian security officials said on Sunday.
U.S. concerned about Turkey’s choice of Chinese missile system
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States said on Saturday it had expressed serious concerns to Turkey over its decision to co-produce a long-range air and missile defense system with a Chinese firm under U.S. sanctions.
Special Report: Myanmar old guard clings to $8 billion jade empire
HPAKANT, Myanmar (Reuters) – Tin Tun picked all night through teetering heaps of rubble to find the palm-sized lump of jade he now holds in his hand. He hopes it will make him a fortune. It’s happened before.
Kenya says ‘at war’ with al Shabaab, faces security questions
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya is “at war” with Islamist militants who attacked a Nairobi shopping mall, the government said on Saturday as it faced questions about whether it had received advance intelligence warnings of the deadly strike.
Argentina says Iran committed to probing 1994 bombing
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Iran has approved a deal with Argentina to investigate the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish community center that courts in the South American country accuse Tehran of sponsoring, Argentine official state news service Tela…
