Washington / AFP Extreme poverty has been falling steadily around the world, but eliminating it by 2030 could be stymied by unequal distribution of the gains of economic growth, the World Bank said on Sunday. Unless the gains of growth are steered better to those at the bottom of a country’s economy, they could be left behind, warned the …

  Bloomberg Italy’s bond-yield spread to Spanish securities climbed to the highest level in almost two years after the latest poll showed that the constitutional referendum, on which Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s political fate hangs, is too close to call. Italian 10-year government bonds declined, erasing last week’s gain, after a survey conducted by Ipsos PA for the newspaper Corriere …

  Beirut / AFP At least 21 Syrian rebels fighting alongside Turkish troops in northern Syria against the IS group were killed by landmines laid by the extremist group, a monitor said on Monday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the toll was the highest loss of life for forces involved in the Turkish-led operation in northern Syria since …