Eurozone
  • Italian parliament meets to seek way out of election gridlock

    Italian parliament meets to seek way out of election gridlock

    By James Mackenzie, Reuters

    ROME (Reuters) - The Italian parliament convened on Friday for the first time since last month's deadlocked election with no sign of a deal to end the stalemate and yield a new government able to...

  • Fragile Portugal gets more time on bailout goals

    Fragile Portugal gets more time on bailout goals

    By Sergio Goncalves, Reuters

    LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's lenders eased its budget goals on Friday and gave it more time to make unpopular spending cuts, acknowledging the country's compliance with its bailout program will not...

  • EU rejects Franco-British push to arm Syrian rebels

    EU rejects Franco-British push to arm Syrian rebels

    By Peter Griffiths and Justyna Pawlak, Reuters

    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union governments on Friday rejected Franco-British efforts to lift an EU arms embargo to allow weapons supplies to Syrian rebels, saying this could spark an arms race...

  • France pushes EU to end Syria arms ban

    France pushes EU to end Syria arms ban

    By Adrian Croft and John Irish, Reuters

    BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) - France will urge other European Union governments at a summit on Thursday to lift an embargo on supplying weapons to the Syrian opposition, President Francois Hollande said...

  • Analysis "strongly indicates" Higgs boson found: CERN

    Analysis "strongly indicates" Higgs boson found: CERN

    By Reuters

    GENEVA (Reuters) - Analysis of the tracks of an elementary particle found in the Large Hadron Collider last year "strongly indicates" that it is the long-sought Higgs boson, the CERN physics research...