LONDON (Reuters) – Government support for low-carbon electricity generation will triple by 2020 after the energy and finance ministries reached a deal to end months of wrangling over costly reforms. Under the agreed Levy Control Framework, spending on renewable power generation will increase to 7.6 billion pounds a year in real terms by 2020, from the current 2.35 billion pounds, to reduce dependence on gas. … Budget clash leaves EU summit close to failure; tensions high as 27 leaders meet in Brussels
BRUSSELS – The prospect of failure hangs over a European Union leaders’ summit that is intended to lay out the 27-country bloc’s long-term spending plans.
North Korea possibly preparing long-range missile test-report
TOKYO (Reuters) – North Korea, under heavy U.N. sanctions for its nuclear weapons program, could be preparing a long-range ballistic missile test, a Japanese newspaper said on Friday, citing officials who have seen U.S. intelligence analysis. The report comes just weeks before South Korea’s December 19 presidential election in which how to handle North Korea is a major campaign issue. The isolated North has for years tried to influence major events in the South by waging propaganda or armed attacks. …
Swedish immigrant shooter gets life in prison
A Swedish gunman convicted of two murders and five attempted murders has been sentenced to life in prison for the spate of shootings that mainly targeted immigrants in the southern city of Malmo.
Thailand braces for large anti-government rally
Thailand will deploy thousands of police officers and has invoked a special security law for an anti-government rally Saturday that is expected to be the largest since Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra took office in 2011, and that officials fear could turn violent. After Gaza, Netanyahu down in poll but still seen winning ballot
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Discontent over a ceasefire that Israeli Pri me Minister Benjamin Netanyahu struck with Hamas in Gaza has cost him support before an election in January but he should still win the ballot, a poll showed on Friday. The survey by Israel's Maariv newspaper, the first since the truce took hold on Wednesday, said the newly merged party of Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Likud Beitenu, would take 37 of the 120 parliamentary seats up for grabs on January 22. A poll taken before the eight-day conflict suggested they would win 43 seats. … Bastion of Calgary Conservatives under fire in byelection
people are actually talking about a federal byelection coming up Monday in a downtown riding.
Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Perth, Australia's coastal boomtown
PERTH (Reuters) – The hometown of Australia's richest citizen, mining magnate Gina Rinehart, Perth is the center of the country's iron ore and oil and gas boom. with some of the largest resources firms ch urning out billions in profits here. But Perth has a laid back side too– there's a saying that W.A., the acronym for Western Australia, actually stands for "wait awhile." And why not take it easy in this city with a sunny Mediterranean climate and miles and miles of coastline where even on a busy summer weekend, you have a good chance of having a big stretch of beach all to yourself. … Poll: Half of Israelis think military campaign in Hamas-ruled Gaza stopped too soon
JERUSALEM – A poll shows about half of Israelis think their government should have continued its military offensive against Palestinian militants in Hamas-ruled Gaza.
UPDATE 1-Australian tax office to pursue coal baron Tinkler
* Federal tax office has until Dec 10 to prepare case * Irish stud farm owned by Dubai ruler subpoenas Tinkler * Two Tinkler firms in liquidation this week * Pressure rises on lenders to act on Whitehaven stake – analyst SYDNEY, Nov 23 (Reuters) – The Australian government was granted permission by a court on Friday to prepare legal action against coal baron Nathan Tinkler as creditors close in on the former billionaire, threatening to end a rags-to-riches story built on the nation’s mining boom. …
Afghanistan truck bomb kills two, foreign troops among 70 wounded
KABUL (Reuters) – A suicide truck bomb killed two people and wounded more than 70 in volatile eastern Afghanistan on Friday, officials said, with several foreign troops among those injured. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing in Maidan Shahr, the provincial capital of Wardak province, 35 km (22 miles) southwest of the capital, Kabul, but it was unclear what the target was. …
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