In Turkey’s Kurdish heartland, a battle for homes and votes
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Kurdish electrician Sukru Gunduz was out on a job when a friend came running to tell him his house was being knocked down, with five members of his family inside.
French leader Macron’s power system: never explain, never apologize
PARIS (Reuters) – When Emmanuel Macron was gearing up for his presidential campaign in 2016, he set out on an unprecedented “great march” – a door-to-door campaign to hear voters’ grievances in what promised to be a new, more open way of running the country.
Hezbollah allies set for gains in Lebanon parliament: unofficial results
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Iran-backed Shi’ite group Hezbollah and its political allies looked set to win more than half the seats in Lebanon’s first parliamentary election in nine years, according to preliminary results cited by politicians and Lebanese m…
Venezuela slams ‘supremacist policies’ of Pompeo, Trump ‘regime’
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela on Sunday slammed comments by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about the government of President Nicolas Maduro, denouncing “supremacist policies” and aggression by the “regime of Donald Trump.”
Clash of political titans brings a gripping election to Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s general election this week will be an extraordinary contest, pitting a 92-year-old former authoritarian leader and a jailed reformist he fell out with 20 years ago against a prime minister who has been mired in a mul…
Tunisia’s Ennahda claims victory in landmark local elections
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s Islamist Ennahda party claimed victory late on Sunday in the country’s first free municipal elections, a key step in a democratic transition marred by economic disappointment.
Pakistani interior minister shot by man linked to new religious party: report
LAHORE/ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal was wounded on Sunday in an apparent assassination attempt by a gunman linked to a new ultra-religious Muslim party – an incident likely to raise tensions before an election…
Merkel allies reject idea of European finance minister: Handelsblatt
BERLIN (Reuters) – Leading politicians from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives want to pass a resolution at a meeting this week to reject any pooling of debts in Europe and any fiscal policy without national parliamentary controls, Handelsblatt r…
Tunisia’s Ennahda claims victory in landmark local poll
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s Islamist Ennahda party claimed victory late on Sunday in the country’s first free municipal elections, a key step in a democratic transition marred by economic disappointment.
At least 45 dead in attack on Nigerian village, police say
ABUJA (Reuters) – At least 45 people died in an attack on a village in northern Nigeria, a police official told Reuters on Sunday, the latest in a string of incidents underscoring insecurity in parts of the country.
