France must beat U.S. at economic intelligence: trade minister
PARIS (Reuters) – France must get better than the United States at economic intelligence rather than whining about U.S. phone tapping, which is no reason to suspend EU trade talks with Washington, its trade minister told Reuters on Tuesday.
Bulgaria to seek Roma girl’s return from Greece
SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria said on Tuesday it would seek the return of a four-year-old girl found with a Roma family in Greece after DNA tests proved her natural parents were Bulgarian.
Kenya says some soldiers looted during Nairobi mall attack
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan soldiers sent to protect civilians looted shops while al Qaeda-linked militants killed scores of people during a siege at a Nairobi shopping mall last month, the army admitted on Tuesday.
Iraqi PM flies to U.S., seeking arms to fight militants
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki travelled to the United States on Tuesday to press for urgent help and arms to combat the worst upsurge of violence in years.
Russian Bolshoi dancer denies ordering acid attack as trial starts
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to ordering an acid attack that nearly blinded the Bolshoi ballet’s artistic director, and a jobless former convict accused of carrying it out told a court he had acted …
Germany’s SPD aims for quick renewables subsidy reform: document
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s center-left Social Democrats (SPD) will push for a quick reform of renewable energy incentives in any deal to share power with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives, according to SPD documents prepared for coalition talk…
Polio outbreak in northeast Syria risks spreading, WHO says
GENEVA (Reuters) – Polio has broken out among young children in northeast Syria, the World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed on Tuesday, and could spread inside and outside the country, where civil war has led to falling vaccination rates.
India police say Islamists behind attack on opposition rally
BHUBANESWAR/NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) – An Islamist militant group is believed to be behind an attack on a rally by Indian Hindu nationalist politician Narendra Modi that killed six people and wounded more than 80, police said on Tuesday.
India police say Islamists behind attack on opposition rally
BHUBANESWAR/NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) – An Islamist militant group is believed to be behind an attack on a rally by Indian Hindu nationalist politician Narendra Modi that killed six people and wounded more than 80, police said on Tuesday.
EU makes new bid to reach deal on Ukraine’s jailed Tymoshenko
KIEV (Reuters) – European Union mediators were to resume a push on Tuesday aimed at securing the release of Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, with EU politicians warning that time is running out for the signing of a landmark trade agreement…
