Brazilian businesses seek quick action from Bolsonaro on deficit
Brazil’s business community will give far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro little in the way of a honeymoon as it presses him to make good on campaign promises to tame the country’s bureaucracy and erase a yawning public deficit.
Kuwait expects more Arab countries to reopen embassies in Damascus: KUNA
Kuwait said on Monday it expected more Arab countries to reopen embassies in Damascus in “coming days” but added that the move would need a green light from the Arab League, which suspended Syria’s membership seven years ago.
Italy’s 5-Star shows ruthless streak, expels four parliamentarians
The ruling 5-Star Movement expelled four parliamentarians from the party on Monday, including a former coast guard official who once famously ordered the captain of a sinking cruise liner to return to his doomed ship.
Dutch judge extends custody of attack plot suspects
A Dutch judge on Monday extended the detention of four men suspected of plotting a militant attack in the Netherlands, two days after they were arrested in Rotterdam, police said.
Turkey bars German man from leaving country: source
Germany’s foreign ministry said on Monday it was providing consular aid to a German man barred from leaving Turkey after the authorities accused him of supporting a terrorist organization on social media.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards plan to upgrade speed boats with stealth technology
(This December 31, 2018 story corrects unit in paragraph 5 to remove words “per hour”.)
Russia detains U.S. citizen in Moscow for suspected spying
Russia’s FSB state security service said on Monday it has detained an American citizen suspected of spying in Moscow and has opened a criminal case against him.
As temperatures fall, air quality worsens in Indian capital
Pollution levels spiked last week in New Delhi, India’s teeming capital of more than 20 million people, climbing to nearly 12 times the recommended level and exacerbating a public health crisis.
Turkish TV shows purported transfer of Khashoggi remains
A Turkish pro-government television channel has broadcast video showing men carrying suitcases purportedly containing the remains of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi into the residence of his country’s consul general in Istanbul.
Four dead, dozens trapped under rubble after Russian gas blast: agencies
As many as 40 people could still be trapped in the rubble of a Russian apartment block that partially collapsed in an explosion on Monday, killing at least four people, news agencies reported.
