Trump warns Iran against restarting nuclear program
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump warned Iran on Tuesday not to follow through with threats to restart its nuclear program, as he and French President Emmanuel Macron tried to find common ground on saving an international agreement on …
G7 security ministers to press tech firms on combating extremism
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Security ministers from the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations will on Tuesday press major tech and social media companies to do more to combat the spread of extremism, officials said.
Israel says abandons plan to forcibly deport African migrants
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Israeli government said on Tuesday it was abandoning a plan to forcibly deport African migrants who had entered the country illegally.
Ethiopia says British museum must permanently return its artifacts
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Britain must permanently return all artifacts from Ethiopia held by the Victoria and Albert Museum and Addis Ababa will not accept them on loan, an Ethiopian government official said.
Unfazed by Brazil’s army, Rio drug gangs willing to wait out occupation
RIO DE JANEIRO(Reuters) – Leaders of Rio de Janeiro’s heavily armed drug gangs agree on at least one thing with the head of Brazil’s army: An ongoing military intervention cannot solve the soaring crime and violence that is roiling the seaside metropol…
In Iraq minefields, an old war leaves a menacing legacy
BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) – The Iraqis who pick over their country’s old battlefields for military scrap metal and wiring have few other ways to make a living, but the task comes with enormous risks.
Lawyer tells German court neo-Nazi suspect is not murder accomplice
MUNICH (Reuters) – A lawyer for a member of a neo-Nazi gang accused of murdering 10 people more than a decade ago urged judges on Tuesday to dismiss accusations by German prosecutors that she was an accomplice in the crimes.
Police kill at least 37 Maoist militants in central India
MUMBAI, India (Reuters) – The number of Maoist militants killed in an ambush by Indian security forces has risen to 37 after more bodies were pulled out of a river on Tuesday, authorities said.
Palestinian U.N. aid still $200 million short after Trump cuts
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Emergency food aid for around a million Palestinians in Gaza may run out from June if the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees cannot raise another $200 million following a cut-off in U.S. funding, the agency said on Tuesday.
All-male no more: London’s Parliament Square gets first statue of a woman
LONDON (Reuters) – A statue of 19th century British feminist leader Millicent Fawcett was unveiled in London’s Parliament Square on Tuesday, the first monument honoring a woman in a public space previously occupied by 11 statues of men.
