French investigators drop charges against Sarkozy
BORDEAUX, France (Reuters) – French investigators have abandoned a party funding inquiry against former president Nicolas Sarkozy, a judicial source said on Monday, in a legal case that could have scotched his chances of running for a new term.
Ex-Cyprus president to blame for financial crisis: inquiry
NICOSIA (Reuters) – Cyprus’s former communist president and his government bear chief blame for the island’s financial meltdown in March after they failed to control spending and behaved in an imperious manner, an independent judicial inquiry said on M…
Billions at stake for economic winners and losers of Iran thaw
DUBAI (Reuters) – After years of being caught in the geopolitical crossfire over Iran’s disputed nuclear program, Iranian businessmen in Dubai are daring to hope that signs of a diplomatic thaw will allow crippling economic sanctions to be lifted.
U.N. tells staff to stay at home after German killed in Yemen
SANAA (Reuters) – The United Nations told its staff in Yemen to stay home on Monday, a day after gunmen shot dead a German embassy security guard.
Blast near polio workers kills two in Pakistan’s Peshawar
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – A Taliban bomb that exploded on Monday near a polio vaccination team in Pakistan’s volatile northwestern city of Peshawar killed two people, police said, in the latest in a string of attacks on health workers.
Greek budget sees end to six-year recession next year
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece will emerge from six years of recession next year, a draft budget forecast on Monday, signaling the country is past the worst of a crippling debt crisis that nearly broke Europe’s single currency.
China’s Xi sees ‘long and tortuous’ world economic recovery
NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Monday he expected a “long and tortuous process” of world economic recovery, while China’s economic growth rate of about 7 percent was “within a reasonable and expected range”.
Canadians freed in Egypt still face travel ban
CAIRO (Reuters) – Two Canadians freed at the weekend after being held in Egypt for more than six weeks without charge are still barred from flying home, their lawyer said on Monday.
Suspected Islamist fighters attack northern Mali city
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Suspected Islamist militants hit the northern Malian city of Gao with artillery fire on Monday, in the first attack on the insurgents’ former stronghold in months, city residents, military and local government officials said.
French far-right pulls ahead in local election
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s far-right National Front knocked out left-wing rivals and won twice as many votes as the center-right UMP party in the first round of a local election in southern France, a sign of growing popularity for the anti-immigrant gr…
