Separatist bid looms over Barcelona attack commemoration
Barcelona paid tribute on Friday to the victims of a militant rampage last year which killed 16 people, but a call from victims’ families to put aside divisions over independence ambitions for the surrounding region of Catalonia was not heeded by all.
Mexico union boss victory exposes crack in top graft cases
A Mexican court ruling allowing an ex-union boss to walk free of money laundering charges laid bare a serious flaw in a host of other high-profile corruption trials, officials and experts say, and underscored the challenge facing the incoming governmen…
Netanyahu questioned again in long-running corruption probe
Israeli police questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday over what local media said was a case involving the country’s largest telecoms firm, one of three corruption probes in which he has been named as a suspect.
Turkish court rejects U.S. pastor Brunson’s appeal for release: Haberturk
A Turkish court has rejected an appeal to release American Christian pastor Andrew Brunson from house arrest, broadcaster Haberturk said on Friday.
Merkel lowers expectations before talks with Putin
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday she did not expect her Saturday meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to produce any particular results.
Sniffer dogs and cranes help rescuers at scene of Italian bridge collapse
Italian rescue workers used jackhammers and cranes on Friday to lift giant slabs of concrete from the Genoa highway bridge collapse, hoping to find survivors buried in the rubble of the disaster that killed at least 38 people.
Germany looks at easing immigration laws to fill skilled labor gaps
The German cabinet will soon decide on a proposal to make it easier for skilled workers from outside the European Union to move to Germany to take a job, a paper seen by Reuters shows, as Germany seeks to alleviate chronic labor shortages.
Rains pile misery on India’s flooded Kerala state as toll rises to 164
The worst floods in a century in the Indian state of Kerala have killed 164 people and forced more than 200,000 into relief camps, officials said on Friday, with more misery expected as heavy rain pushed water levels higher.
Tunisia says holding passport of Islamist suspect deported by Germany pending probe
Tunisia has confiscated the passport of a man suspected of being an Islamist militant who once served as Osama bin Laden’s bodyguard to prevent him returning to Germany, a judiciary official said on Friday.
Firefighters have not lost hope of finding miracle survivor in Genoa
More than a long shot, it would be a miracle.
