Germany’s Kohl sought to repatriate Turks 30 years ago: report
BERLIN (Reuters) – Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl discussed a secret plan with Margaret Thatcher in 1982 to reduce the number of Turks living in West Germany by 50 percent, according to recently released British documents cited by Spiegel Online in Germ…
Moroccans to protest royal pardon for Spanish paedophile
RABAT (Reuters) – Moroccans outraged by a royal pardon for a Spanish pedophile serving a 30-year sentence for raping 11 children in the North African kingdom are planning a protest in Rabat on Friday.
Courts finally catch up with Berlusconi
ROME (Reuters) – For two decades Silvio Berlusconi seemed teflon-coated, untouched by dozens of court cases and scandals, dominating political life and becoming Italy’s prime minister four times.
Kerry says Obama has timeline to end U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – President Barack Obama has a timeline for ending the U.S. program of drone strikes, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday, following talks with the new government of Pakistan.
Tunisia’s ruling party says won’t remove prime minister
TUNIS (Reuters) – The head of Tunisia’s ruling Islamist party on Thursday refused to remove the prime minister from his post, hardening its stance toward the secular opposition’s demand that the government be dissolved.
Italian firm to provide surveillance drone for U.N. in Congo
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations said on Thursday it has procured an unarmed surveillance drone from Italian defense electronics firm Selex ES, a unit of Finmeccanica, that will be deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the coming…
Black Italy minister pulls out of debate amid racial insults
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s first black minister has pulled out of a debate with the anti-immigrant Northern League after its leader refused to condemn a barrage of racial insults she has faced from his party’s members.
Moroccans to protest royal pardon for Spanish pedophile
RABAT (Reuters) – Moroccans outraged by a royal pardon for a Spanish pedophile serving a 30-year sentence for raping 11 children in the North African kingdom are planning a protest in Rabat on Friday.
Chemical weapons investigators head to Syria within days: U.N.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. inspectors will travel to Syria within days to investigate claims of chemical weapons use in the country’s civil war after the Syrian government granted access to three sites, the United Nations said on Thursday.
Explosion in Syrian city of Homs kills 40: monitoring group
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Forty people were killed and at least 120 people were wounded in an explosion at a weapons cache in the central Syrian city of Homs on Thursday, a group opposed to President Bashar al-Assad said.
