European pay-TV broadcaster Sky has taken full control of Sky Deutschland after buying the remaining stock that it did not already own, the media giant said Tuesday. “Sky has consolidated its position as Europe’s leading entertainment company after completing the acquisition of the remaining shares in Sky Deutschland,” it said in a statement. Sky Deutschland will meanwhile be shortly delisted from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday, a day ahead of the start of a crucial Federal Reserve policy meeting. Fed policymakers will convene a two-day meeting on Wednesday and could decide to raise interest rates for the first time in close to a decade.
BEIRUT (AP) — Dozens of Lebanese activists held a protest on Tuesday outside a Finance Ministry building in the country’s capital, after failing to storm it — part of a recent series of anti-government rallies stemming from a trash collection crisis.
Britain’s newly-elected hard-left opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn on Tuesday slammed Prime Minister David Cameron’s budget austerity as a “political choice” and called the Conservative government “poverty deniers”. “Austerity is actually a political choice that this government has taken and they’re imposing it on the poorest and most vulnerable in our society,” Corbyn said in a speech at the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in the coastal resort of Brighton in southern
By Krisztina Than and Francois Murphy ROSZKE, Hungary/VIENNA (Reuters) – Two decades of frontier-free travel across Europe unraveled on Monday as countries re-established border controls in the face of an unprecedented influx of migrants, which broke the record for the most arrivals by land in a single day. Germany’s surprise decision to restore border controls on Sunday had a swift domino effect, prompting neighbors to impose checks at their own
By Matt Siegel CANBERRA (Reuters) – Australia will have its fifth prime minister in eight years after the ruling Liberal Party on Monday voted out Tony Abbott in favor of longtime rival Malcolm Turnbull, following months of infighting and crumbling voter support. Turnbull, a multi-millionaire former tech entrepreneur, won a secret party vote by 54 to 44, Liberal Party chief whip Scott Buchholz told reporters after the meeting in Canberra.
By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Russia has positioned about a half dozen tanks at a Syrian airfield at the center of a military buildup, two U.S. officials said on Tuesday, adding the intentions of Moscow’s latest deployment of heavy military equipment to Syria was unclear. One of the U.S. officials said seven Russian T-90 tanks were observed at the airfield near Latakia, a stronghold of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
By Mustafa Andalib GHAZNI, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Taliban insurgents stormed a prison in Afghanistan on Monday, killing police and releasing more than 350 inmates, including nearly 150 deemed a threat to national security, and then attacked troops rushing to help, officials said. The latest Taliban prison raid, on the outskirts of the central city of Ghazni, comes after setbacks for the government in different parts of the country and deadly
By Ahmed Mohamed Hassan CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian security forces killed 12 people and wounded 10 “by accident” when they mistook a convoy of mostly Mexican tourists for a group of militants they were hunting in the desert, the interior ministry said on Monday. At least two Mexicans were killed, Mexico’s foreign ministry said, though Egyptian security and judicial sources later said that eight Mexicans and four Egyptians were killed,
Two car bomb blasts killed at least 26 people and wounded dozens more in the mostly Kurdish-controlled eastern Syrian city of Hasaka on Monday, a monitor and state media reported. The separate explosions targeted and killed Kurdish fighters in one area and Syrian government forces in another, and also left at least 13 civilians dead, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Hasaka is mostly Kurdish-controlled after advances this