Poll tension grips Pakistan as ousted PM flies home to face jail
Ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam, both sentenced to lengthy jail terms in absentia, were flying back to Pakistan on Friday in a high-stakes gamble to galvanize their beleaguered party ahead of a July 25 election.
Cameroon’s veteran president makes bid for seventh term
Cameroon’s President Paul Biya said on Friday he would run for re-election in October, aiming to extend his 36-year rule and keep his place on the roster of Africa’s longest-serving leaders.
UK PM May doing ‘fantastic’ job on Brexit, says Trump, promising trade deal
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he looked forward to finalizing a post-Brexit trade deal with Britain, marking an abrupt change from a newspaper interview when he said Prime Minister Theresa May’s strategy would kill such an agreement.
Trump to talk to Putin about substantially reducing nuclear weapons
U.S. President Donald Trump will discuss substantial reductions to nuclear weapons when he meets Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday.
EU slams ‘tasteless’ speculation on Juncker’s health
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker suffered a painful sciatica attack at a NATO summit this week, a commission spokesman said on Friday, dismissing as “more than tasteless” media speculation that he was drunk.
Iraq’s Umm Qasr port crippled by protests
About 100 protesters demanding jobs and better services from Iraq’s leaders closed access to Umm Qasr commodities port near the southern city of Basra on Friday, port employees said.
China stifles memorials of Nobel laureate dissident Liu Xiaobo
China warned supporters of Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident Liu Xiaobo not to mark Friday’s anniversary of his death, while rights activists in Chinese-ruled Hong Kong and in Berlin where his widow arrived on Tuesday gathered to keep his memory aliv…
Despite sanctions, Crimea joins Russia’s World Cup party
Like soccer fans worldwide, people in the Crimean city of Sevastopol wanted to enjoy watching the World Cup together on big screens in public places.
Bomb on Pakistan election campaign event kills 27 amid tension as ex-PM Sharif returns
A suicide bomber hit a campaign event in southwestern Pakistan, a police official said, killing 27 people in the second election-related attack on Friday amid tensions over ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s return ahead of the July 25 vote.
At least 34 injured as train is derailed in Egypt
At least 34 people were injured on Friday when a passenger train derailed south of Egypt’s capital Cairo, the health ministry said in a statement.
