Insight: Merkel’s Europe – how her men run Brussels
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – In Brussels, Germans have shrugged off their postwar reserve and make no apology for shaping Europe’s future, taking key posts in EU institutions and pushing Berlin’s trade interests with vigor.
Special Report: Poland’s roads to ruin
MSZANA, Poland (Reuters) – When Poland started handing out billions of euros worth of contracts for a wave of road-building five years ago, everyone was meant to benefit.
France’s Hollande seen losing 2017 presidential election: poll
PARIS (Reuters) – Four fifths of French voters believe President Francois Hollande will not win the next presidential election in 2017, a poll showed on Thursday, a fresh blow to the leader of the euro zone’s second-biggest economy.
Mexico ruling party ready to back higher junk food tax: lawmaker
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is ready to support an opposition proposal to increase a planned tax on junk food included in the government’s fiscal reform, the PRI’s leader in the Senate said on Wednesd…
Brazil high court ruling on large Indian reserve a setback for farmers
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the terms for the creation of one of the country’s largest Indian reservations did not apply elsewhere, in a setback for agricultural interests hoping to limit the expansion of reserve…
Tunisian police battle militants, talks delayed
TUNIS (Reuters) – Seven Tunisian policemen were killed in clashes with militants on Wednesday as the government cracked down on Islamist fighters using the chaos in neighboring Libya to get weapons and training.
Tank traps meet tourist traps at Korea’s Demilitarised Zone
DEMILITARISED ZONE, South Korea (Reuters) – South Korean soldiers are everywhere on the south side of the misleadingly named Demilitarized Zone. They guard buildings and man roadblocks to keep the invading hordes at bay.
Pakistan prime minister urges Obama to end drone strikes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif urged U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday to end drone strikes in Pakistan, touching on a sore subject just as relations between the two countries improve after years of suspicion over A…
Insight: China party’s secretive judicial system laid bare in torture case
BEIJING (Reuters) – As Yu Qiyi’s interrogation entered its 39th day, officials from the Chinese Communist Party’s anti-corruption watchdog debated how to get a confession out of the detained man, the chief engineer at a state-owned firm in eastern Wenz…
Insight: China party’s secretive judicial system laid bare in torture case
BEIJING (Reuters) – As Yu Qiyi’s interrogation entered its 39th day, officials from the Chinese Communist Party’s anti-corruption watchdog debated how to get a confession out of the detained man, the chief engineer at a state-owned firm in eastern Wenz…
