European, U.S. retailers split on Bangladesh reform plan
DHAKA (Reuters) - Major U.S. retailers, including Gap Inc, declined to endorse an accord on Bangladesh building and fire safety backed by Europe's two biggest fashion chains, a trans-Atlantic divide that may dilute garment industry reform efforts. Three weeks after the collapse of a building housing garment factories, which killed more than 1,100 people, Western brands that rely on Bangladesh to produce clothing cheaply disagreed over how best to ensure worker safety.
Russia says CIA agent caught trying to recruit spy
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia expelled a U.S. diplomat on Tuesday after saying he had been caught red-handed with disguises, special equipment and wads of cash as he tried to recruit a Russian intelligence agent to work for the CIA. Apparently detained in an incongruous-looking blond wig, with props reminiscent of a schoolboy's spy kit, U.S. Embassy Third Secretary Ryan Fogle hardly looked like a Cold War secret agent.
Turkey's Erdogan to push Obama on Syria after bombings
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Turkey's prime minister will push President Barack Obama for more assertive action on Syria during a visit to Washington this week, days after car bombs tore through a Turkish border town in the deadliest spillover of violence yet. The bombings in Reyhanli, which killed 50 people on Saturday, and activists' reports of a massacre of Sunni Muslims in a Syrian coastal town have incensed Tayyip Erdogan, already critical of the slow international response to the conflict.
French finance ministry needs a 'boss': Fabius
PARIS (Reuters) - Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius called on Tuesday for stronger management of France's dispute-ridden finance ministry, adding fuel to growing speculation of an imminent reshuffle by President Francois Hollande. Fabius' comments come after a string of clashes between center-left Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici and his left-wing Industry Ministry Arnaud Montebourg over everything from public finances to the state's role in deciding private sector investments.
German woman covered for neo-Nazi murder gang, court hears
MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - A 38-year-old German woman charged with complicity in a series of racist murders played a key role in creating an air of normality around her neo-Nazi cell, a prosecutor said on Tuesday. The case of Beate Zschaepe and the National Socialist Underground (NSU), the group blamed for the murders of eight Turks, a Greek and a German policewoman, has scandalized Germany and exposed an institutional blind spot for far-right extremism.
Three killed in Rwanda building collapse, more feared trapped
KIGALI (Reuters) - Police in Rwanda said three people were killed and an unknown number were feared trapped after a four-storey building under construction collapsed on Tuesday in a town in the northeast of the central African country. The building collapsed in the afternoon in Nyagatare, some 100 km northeast of the capital Kigali, and rescuers were scrabbling to find survivors, police said.
Analysis: Syria's savagery will thwart reconciliation
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian soldiers slowly stab a man to death, puncturing his back dozens of times. A rebel commander bites an organ ripped out of an enemy combatant. A young boy hacks the head off a prisoner. A soldier mutilates the genitals of a corpse. These are the images of Syrian conflict, the first war in which the prevalence of camera phones and Internet access has allowed hundreds of gruesome war crimes to be broadcast, spreading hatred and fear. They are defining the war that is spilling across Syria's borders and making reconciliation an ever more distant prospect.
Iran defends post as chair of UN disarmament conference
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran on Tuesday defended its election as the rotating chair of the world's sole multilateral disarmament forum after the United States announced that its ambassador to the U.N. Conference on Disarmament would boycott any meeting led by Tehran. The U.N. Conference on Disarmament has been deadlocked for about 15 years. While the chairmanship of the Geneva-based body is largely ceremonial, it is a high-profile position. Two years ago North Korea, which withdrew from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 2003 and has tested three atomic devices since, chaired the conference and sparked Western criticism.
Britain's Cameron faces leadership questions over Europe
LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron faced questions about his leadership on Tuesday after he bowed to pressure from inside the ruling Conservative Party to bring forward draft legislation enforcing a referendum on Britain's European Union membership. Just hours after U.S. President Barack Obama cautioned against rushing towards the EU exit, Cameron was forced by a rebellion in his party into promising a bill that would pave the way for an in-out vote on Europe.
Italy will not dismantle Monti's labor reform: minister
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's new government will make few substantial changes to the much-criticized labor reform adopted last year by former premier Mario Monti, Industry and Welfare Minister Enrico Giovannini told parliament on Tuesday. The unpopular reform made it harder and more expensive to hire workers on temporary contracts and slightly easier to fire permanent staff.
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