China says open for trade with east Europe as clash with U.S. ramps up
China remains open for trade with foreign partners and can only benefit from an economically strong Europe, its premier said on Saturday as he pressed for expanded ties with the continent’s eastern wing while waging a tariff war with Washington.
Two Filipinas kidnapped in Iraq: security sources
Two Filipina women were kidnapped on Saturday in Iraq on a road connecting Baghdad to oil city Kirkuk, military, police, and local officials told Reuters.
Pompeo says progress made on timeline of North Korea’s denuclearisation: pool report
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Saturday that he has made progress in Pyongyang on setting a timeline to North Korea’s denuclearisation, according to a pool report from journalists traveling with him.
Bombings in Somalia’s capital wound 13
At least 13 people were wounded on Saturday in a suicide car bombing near Somalia’s presidential palace and another blast outside a police station close by in the capital, the emergency services said.
Turkey’s Erdogan to name cabinet as signals action on economy
Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he would name the cabinet he has selected on Monday, as he renewed a promise to tackle what he called the “structural problems” of the country’s economy.
Two workers killed in second attack on Libyan water plant
Suspected Islamist militants killed two workers and kidnapped two others at a water plant in southeastern Libya early on Saturday, the second attack targeting water facilities in two days, officials said.
At least 38 killed, 50 missing as torrential rain pounds Japan
At least 50 people were missing and four in critical condition as torrential rain that has killed 38 people pounds western and central Japan, public broadcaster NHK said on Saturday, with more than 1.6 million evacuated from their homes.
‘No kid left behind’: Macron tries to fix France’s education system
In a primary school in a run-down neighborhood south of Paris, a teacher asks his first-year class how to spell words in a text on dinosaurs.
Iranian oil minister calls Trump’s order to OPEC insulting
Iran’s oil minister on Saturday accused U.S. President Donald Trump of insulting OPEC by ordering it to increase production and reduce prices, adding that Iranian output and exports had not changed as a result of U.S. pressure.
Russian PM to visit Turkey for Erdogan’s inauguration on July 9
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is to lead the Russian delegation at the inauguration of Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey on July 9, the Russian government said in a statement on Saturday.
