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| Dutch government to face possible no confidence vote over Greece | |  The government of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is expected to face a call for a no-confidence vote from euro-sceptic, right-wing rival Geert Wilders, when parliament debates the latest bailout programme for Greece on Wednesday. During his 2012 election campaign, Rutte had vowed "not one cent more for Greece," a sentiment endorsed by Wilders, Rutte's Liberal party and most Dutch voters. Wilders has said that if the Dutch government agrees to contribute more to Greece he will submit a motion of no confidence.
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| U.S. Senate Democrats stake out both sides of Iran deal | | | By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Robert Menendez blasted the U.S.-led international nuclear deal with Iran on Tuesday, vowing to oppose it in defiance of President Barack Obama, who picked up much-needed support for the deal from two other Senate Democrats. As September voting on the agreement in the U.S. Congress neared, Menendez, a former Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, became the second senior lawmaker from Obama's own party to announce he would vote to kill the pact with Tehran. "I will vote to disapprove the agreement and, if called upon, would vote to override a veto" by the president, Menendez said in a speech in his home state of New Jersey. |
| In Germany, 60 conservative MPs oppose Merkel course on Greece | |  By Paul Carrel and Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) - A total of 60 lawmakers in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's 311-member conservative bloc voted against or abstained in a test ballot on Tuesday over a third bailout plan for Greece before the vote in parliament, participants told Reuters. Klaus-Peter Willsch, a key dissident, said: "We were promised the same thing so often but it was always broken." Support from other parties including the Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's junior coalition partner, and the opposition Greens means approval is not in doubt.
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| German parliament seen backing Greek bailout despite rebellion | | | By Paul Carrel BERLIN (Reuters) - German lawmakers are expected to vote overwhelmingly in favour of Greece's third bailout on Wednesday, even though Chancellor Angela Merkel faces a dangerous rebellion in her own party ranks that suggests she cannot ask parliament to help Athens again. A significant minority of Merkel's conservatives may vote against the 86 billion-euro ($94.84 billion) bailout, sending the government a warning that the latest package is its last chance to keep debt-ridden Greece in the 19-country euro zone. Sixty of the 311 conservative lawmakers voted `no' or abstained - fewer than a rebellion by as many as 120 MPs that had been feared. |
| U.S. military probe of Afghan shooting found Bales' camp had lax discipline | | | By David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The month before he killed 16 Afghan civilians in a shooting rampage, Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales bloodied the nose of an Afghan truck driver in an assault that was not reported to his camp commanders, according to a report released on Tuesday. The assault, and the failure to report it to senior officers, was one of several signs that the post where Bales served in Afghanistan was suffering from "low standards of personal conduct and discipline," said the military's administrative investigation of the 2012 shooting incident. The week before the shootings, Bales used steroids while on a mission and one fellow non-commissioned officer was worried about his erratic behaviour, but those concerns were not passed on to camp leadership, the report said. |
| Turkey faces fractious interim rule as PM gives up on forming new govt | |  By Orhan Coskun and Ercan Gurses ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu formally ended attempts to form the next government on Tuesday after weeks of coalition talks failed, raising the prospect of a fractious interim administration leading the country to a new election. Davutoglu officially handed the mandate back to President Tayyip Erdogan at an evening meeting in the capital Ankara, Erdogan's office said in a statement. NATO member Turkey has not seen this level of political uncertainty since the fragile coalition governments of the 1990s - turmoil it could do without as it takes on a frontline role in the U.S.-led campaign against Islamic State insurgents in Syria and battles Kurdish militants at home.
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| Iraq's Maliki rejects blame for fall of Mosul | |  By Ahmed Rasheed and Stephen Kalin BAGHDAD/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iraq's former prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, on Tuesday denounced as worthless a parliamentary report which blamed him and others for the fall of Mosul to Islamic State last year and called for them to be referred to the judiciary. "There is no value to the results that came out of the parliamentary investigation committee", Maliki said on Facebook in his first public comments since the report was released on Sunday and referred to the public prosecutor on Monday. Maliki, whose website says he has been in Iran since Friday, said political differences in the panel compromised its objectivity.
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| FIFA to meet sponsors on Thursday | |  By Brian Homewood BERNE (Reuters) - FIFA will meet some of its leading commercial partners on Thursday to discuss reforms, a source close to soccer's world governing body said on Tuesday. FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke said last month that Coca-Cola, Visa and McDonald's had written asking for information about what was being done to clean up governance of the sport and offering to meet soccer's ruling body. Valcke's announcement came after Coca-Cola and Visa urged FIFA to support the creation of an independent body to reform the way it is run.
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| Turkish PM returns mandate to form government to President Erdogan | |  Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu officially returned the mandate to form a government to President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday, the presidency said in a statement, after failing to find a junior coalition partner for his AK Party. The move, widely expected after coalition talks between the AKP and the nationalist MHP broke down on Monday, could now lead Erdogan to give the mandate to parliament's second-largest party, the secular CHP, although it, too, is seen as being unable to form a government. If no government is formed by Aug. 23, Erdogan must dissolve Davutoglu's caretaker administration and call on an interim power-sharing government to lead Turkey to a new election in the autumn.
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| South Africa justice minister says seeking legal advice on Pistorius parole | |  By Peroshni Govender JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's justice minister said on Tuesday he was seeking legal advice on whether its parole board was right to decide to free Oscar Pistorius on house arrest on Friday after serving a sixth of his five-year sentence for killing his girlfriend. "Whether that decision of the parole board was regular and correct in law is what I am seeking advice about, and if it wasn't, whether there is anything that empowers me in law to have the matter revisited," Justice Minister Michael Masutha told Reuters. Pistorius, 29, a former Paralympic gold medallist, is due after his planned release on Friday to spend the balance of his sentence at his uncle's three-storey mansion in a leafy suburb of South Africa's capital Pretoria.
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| Rajapaksa's comeback fails as Sri Lankan voters back reforms | |  By Shihar Aneez and Douglas Busvine COLOMBO (Reuters) - Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa's attempt to stage a comeback in Sri Lanka's general election has ended in defeat as results on Tuesday showed the alliance that toppled him making decisive gains. The ruling United National Party (UNP) fell just short of an outright majority, but Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe should still command enough support to form a stable government after eight months of minority rule. "I invite all of you to join hands," Wickremesinghe, 66, said in a statement.
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| Zimbabwe court charges game park owner over illegal hunt of Cecil the lion | |  The game park owner accused of letting an American tourist illegally hunt and kill a lion on his property in Zimbabwe has been charged in connection with the killing and released on bail in Hwange, his lawyer said. The killing of Cecil, a 13-year-old, rare, black-maned lion and a popular tourist attraction, caused global consternation and triggered a major backlash against Africa's multi-million dollar hunting industry. Honest Ndlovu owns the game park into which Cecil was lured from the adjacent Hwange National Park and shot with a bow and arrow by American dentist Walter Palmer.
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| Thai authorities focus on suspect seen in CCTV footage at blast site | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Aukkarapon Niyomyat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai authorities said on Tuesday they were looking for a suspect seen on closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage near a popular shrine where a bomb blast killed 22 people, nearly half of them foreigners. The government said the attack during Monday's evening rush hour in Bangkok's commercial hub was aimed at destroying the economy. Major-General Werachon Sukhondhapatipak said there were similarities between Monday's deadly blast and the smaller, Tuesday explosion, but added the authorities had not established links between the two.
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| Internships: to pay or not to pay? | | | By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) - For young people trying to get a foot on the career ladder, internships offer valuable experience. Actresses and fashion designers Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen were the latest high-profile employers to be hit with a lawsuit when a former intern at their company filed a case last week. Shahista Lalani claims she worked 50 hours a week for Dualstar Entertainment Group and was not paid. |
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