Six Turkish security force members killed in Kurdish militant attack: security sources
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants staged an attack near a military base in southeast Turkey’s Siirt province, killing six Turkish security force members and wounding seven, security sources said on Friday.
Gaza farmer killed by Israeli tank shell: Gaza health official
GAZA (Reuters) – A Gaza farmer was killed and a second man was wounded by an Israeli tank shell on Friday, a Gaza health ministry spokesman said, on a day of heightened tensions ahead of planned protests by Palestinians along the border with Israel.
Japan’s defense chief welcomes resumption of U.S.-South Korea military drills
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s defense chief welcomed on Friday the planned resumption of U.S.-South Korean joint military exercises, saying the annual drill set to start on Sunday would add pressure on North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program.
Fire kills 20 Myanmar migrant workers on bus in Thailand: police
BANGKOK (Reuters) – A fire on board a bus in western Thailand killed 20 migrant workers from Myanmar early on Friday, police said.
Mexico swinging against the establishment as presidential campaign starts
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexicans tired of graft and chaotic violence look set to reject the party that has governed the country for most of the past century, embracing a global anti-establishment mood by favoring a leftist dissenter in a presidential e…
Trump says may hold up South Korea trade deal until after deal with North Korea
RICHFIELD, Ohio (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he may hold up a trade agreement reached this week with South Korea until after a deal is reached with North Korea on denuclearization.
Iranian granted U.S. visa to aid brother with cancer despite travel ban
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department granted a visa to a man in Iran hoping to donate bone marrow to his U.S. citizen brother with blood cancer, obtaining a rare waiver to President Donald Trump’s travel ban, the family’s lawyer said on Thurs…
Eye on the presidency, Mexico leftist mixes hardball and softball
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Faced with tough questions last week from six journalists on live television, Mexican presidential front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador leaned back in his chair with a twinkle in his eye, laughing off criticism, at times mak…
Russia orders out 60 U.S. diplomats over spy poisoning affair
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia expelled 60 U.S. diplomats on Thursday and announced it would eject scores from other countries that have joined London and Washington in censuring Moscow over the poisoning of a spy.
Pope, in Holy Thursday prison visit, says death penalty not Christian
ROME (Reuters) – Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of 12 prison inmates, including two Muslims and a Buddhist, in a Holy Thursday ritual and said the death penalty should be abolished because it is neither Christian nor humane.
