Iran is biggest test for Obama’s often rocky ties with Netanyahu
WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Six months after President Barack Obama eased a strained relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a visit to Israel dubbed “Operation Desert Schmooze,” the two leaders now face the biggest test of whet…
Greek far-right lawmakers to make pleas against criminal charges on Tuesday
ATHENS (Reuters) – The leader of Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party and four more of its lawmakers will appear in court on Tuesday to enter pleas on charges of belonging to a criminal organization after being arrested following the killing of an anti…
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.
