BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s cabinet on Tuesday agreed to hold provincial elections in the Sunni majority provinces of Anbar and Nineveh on July 4, following an earlier decision to postpone voting there because of security concerns. Iraqis across most of the country voted for provincial councils on Saturday in their first ballot since U.S. troops [...]

ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan will not reschedule his trip to the Palestinian Gaza strip, he said on Tuesday, despite a request to do so from the United States that had irked Ankara. During a visit to Turkey on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged Erdogan to delay his visit [...]

By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) – Italy's president launched urgent talks that could lead to the naming of a prime minister on Tuesday after two months of post-election stalemate that has weighed on a stagnant economy and alarmed Rome's partners in the euro zone. After an angry and emotional blast on Monday at the very [...]

By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) – Italy's president launched urgent talks on Tuesday that could lead to a prime minister quickly being named after two months of post-electoral stalemate that has weighed on a stagnant economy and alarmed Rome's partners in the euro zone. After an angry and emotional blast of impatience on Monday at [...]

By Kaori Kaneko TOKYO (Reuters) – Tensions flared between Japan and China and South Korea after a group of Japanese lawmakers visited a shrine seen by Asian neighbors as a symbol of Japan's past militarism and Chinese patrol vessels played cat-and-mouse with a flotilla of Japanese nationalists near disputed islands in the East China Sea. [...]