U.S. troops not leaving Syria until goals accomplished: Haley
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Sunday that the United States would not pull its troops out of Syria until its goals were accomplished.
Assad’s children visited Crimean holiday camp, Russian lawmaker says
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s children last year visited a holiday camp in Russian-annexed Crimea, the RIA news agency cited a Russian lawmaker as saying on Sunday.
Canada’s Trudeau set for emergency summit on pipeline crisis
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will on Sunday try to tackle an escalating dispute over a oil pipeline project that threatens to undermine his political and economic agenda.
Demonstrators flood Barcelona in support of jailed separatist leaders
BARCELONA (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of Catalan independence supporters flooded the streets of Barcelona on Sunday calling for the release of jailed separatist leaders after a supreme court ruling frustrated their latest attempt to elect a regio…
Pakistani soldiers killed in attack at Afghanistan border
PARACHINAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Two Pakistani soldiers were killed in cross-border fire from Afghanistan while working on a fence intended to cover nearly all of the disputed 2,500km border separating the countries, the Pakistani military said on Sund…
Allies keep Syria options open as Britain says no strikes planned
LONDON/DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Western powers have no plans for further missile strikes on Syria but will assess their options if Damascus uses chemical weapons again, Britain’s foreign minister said on Sunday as debate raged over the legality and effecti…
Israel to free 200 African migrants awaiting deportation
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel will release about 200 jailed African migrants in the absence of a final deal to deport them and thousands more Eritrean and Sudanese men who entered the country illegally, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
Merkel looks at ways to tackle Germany’s east/west disparities
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday said government subsidies were needed to address lingering disparities in the quality of life in the states of former Communist East Germany and West Germany 28 years after unification.
Another rape reported in India amid protests against brutal acts
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Days after the arrest of a lawmaker from India’s ruling party in connection with the rape of a teenager, another case of the brutal rape and murder of a girl was reported on Sunday in the state of Gujarat in the country’s west.
Japan PM Abe’s rating falls in media poll amid scandal woes
TOKYO (Reuters) – Support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, plagued by accusations of cronyism and cover-ups, fell to 26.7 percent in a survey by private broadcaster Nippon TV released on Sunday, the lowest since he took office in December 2012.
