We must attract more women to survive, Merkel tells her party
BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel pressed her conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) on Saturday to attract more women to their ranks or else lose their status as one of Germany’s two big popular parties, or ‘Volksparteien’.
Coalmine explosion kills 16 laborers in southwest Pakistan: officials
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – A coalmine explosion on Saturday killed at least 16 laborers and injured several others in southwest Pakistan, with over a dozen still trapped, officials said.
U.S. condemns China for ‘Orwellian nonsense’ over airline websites
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Saturday sharply criticized China’s efforts to force foreign airlines to change how they refer to Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, labeling China’s latest effort to police language describing the politically sensit…
Israeli PM Netanyahu to meet Russia’s Putin on Wednesday: statement
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Benjamin Netanyahu will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in Moscow to discuss regional issues, the Israeli prime minister said in a statement on Saturday.
Anger in the UK and France over Trump’s NRA speech
LONDON (Reuters) – Trauma surgeons in London said U.S. President Donald Trump had missed the point after he linked a wave of knife crime in the British capital to a ban on handguns.
Saudi body appears to retract call to end gender segregation
RIYADH (Reuters) – A Saudi body seems to have backtracked on a new initiative calling to end prayer-time store closures and gender segregation in public places – potentially divisive reforms for the deeply conservative kingdom.
Left-wing protesters say ‘enough’ to Macron’s French reforms
PARIS (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Paris on Saturday to protest against the stream of economic reforms brought in by French president Emmanuel Macron since coming to power a year ago.
American who killed Indian man in Kansas bar sentenced to life
(Reuters) – A U.S. Navy veteran who reportedly told an Indian software engineer to “get out of my country” before shooting him dead and wounding two others in a bar in Kansas last year has been sentenced to life in prison, the local prosecutor said.
Turkish opposition candidate for president tells Erdogan ‘let’s race like men’
ANKARA (Reuters) – The presidential candidate for Turkey’s main opposition on Saturday called for the release of the pro-Kurdish opposition’s jailed candidate, challenging President Tayyip Erdogan to “let us race like men” in next month’s election.
Marx’s German birthplace unveils controversial statue of him
TRIER, Germany (Reuters) – Protesters held banners reading “Down with capitalism” and “Father of all dictators” at Saturday’s unveiling of a statue of Karl Marx in the German city of Trier, reflecting the polarizing legacy of the philosopher in his bir…
