Armenia ruling party blocks protest leader’s bid to be PM
YEREVAN (Reuters) – Armenia’s ruling party on Tuesday blocked a bid by opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan to become prime minister, setting up a standoff between the elite that has run the state for over a decade and thousands of Pashinyan’s supporters …
Morocco severs ties with Iran, accusing it of backing Polisario Front
RABAT (Reuters) – Morocco will sever diplomatic ties with Iran over Tehran’s support for the Polisario Front, a Western Sahara independence movement, the Moroccan foreign minister said on Tuesday.
Riot police use teargas against anarchists at Paris May Day rally
PARIS (Reuters) – French riot police used water cannon and teargas on Tuesday against hundreds of hooded protesters after they smashed shop windows and hurled petrol bombs at the start of an annual May Day rally in Paris.
UK ministers attack Britain’s upper house over Brexit vote
LONDON (Reuters) – Ministers criticized the upper house of parliament on Tuesday over its vote to hand parliament powers to block or even delay Brexit, saying the move would tie the government’s hands in negotiations with the European Union.
Pushing to bury Iran deal, Israel insists nobody wants war with Tehran
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel said on Tuesday it does not seek war with Iran, a day after presenting purported evidence of past Iranian nuclear arms work, but suggested U.S. President Donald Trump backed its latest attempt to kill a deal aimed at curbin…
In show of continuity, Castro flanks new Cuban leader at May Day rally
HAVANA (Reuters) – At Cuba’s first major political rally since Raul Castro handed the presidency over to his protege Miguel Diaz-Canel, the two men stood side-by-side overseeing Havana’s May Day march on Tuesday in a show of continuity and unity on the…
Witnessing blast in Kabul: ‘You can still see the smoke in the pictures’
KABUL (Reuters) – The pictures show journalists killed in the second of two explosions that rocked Kabul during the morning rush hour. They were taken by Reuters photographer Omar Sobhani, 10 or 15 seconds after a suicide bomber, apparently targeting m…
At least nine dead after church attack in Central African Republic
BANGUI (Reuters) – At least nine people were killed and dozens others wounded in Central African Republic’s capital Bangui in an attack by unidentified gunmen on a church, a morgue official at the Community Hospital told Reuters.
Blasts kill around 20 people in northeast Nigeria’s Mubi: Adamawa police commissioner
YOLA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Blasts in and around a mosque killed around 20 people in the northeast Nigerian town of Mubi on Tuesday, the police commissioner of Adamawa state said.
Algeria’s biggest union urges Bouteflika to run for fifth term
HASSI MESSAOUD, Algeria (Reuters) – Algeria’s biggest union urged President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Tuesday to seek a fifth term in office in a further sign that the veteran leader will run in next year’s elections in the North African oil producer.
