Ex-FIFA head Blatter flying to Moscow for World Cup: spokesman
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Banned former FIFA president Sepp Blatter will fly to Moscow on Tuesday to visit the soccer World Cup and meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, his spokesman told Reuters.
Exclusive: Malaysia seeks to lay multiple charges against ex-premier Najib over 1MDB – Mahathir
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Embezzlement and bribery with government money are among the charges that Malaysia is looking to bring against former prime minister Najib Razak following a probe into funds allegedly looted from the state-run fund 1MDB, Prime …
China slams U.S. ‘blackmailing’ as Trump issues new trade threat
BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 10 percent tariff on $200 billion of Chinese goods and Beijing warned it would retaliate, in a rapid escalation of the trade conflict between the world’s two biggest econ…
Turkey orders arrest of 124 in Gulen probe targeting military: Anadolu
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish prosecutors have ordered the arrest of 124 people in an operation targeting alleged supporters in the army of the U.S.-based Islamic cleric accused of orchestrating an attempted coup in Turkey two years ago, state media sai…
Iran says South Pars not affected by U.S. actions, upgrading oilfields
LONDON (Reuters) – The possible withdrawal of French oil major Total from Iran’s South Pars gas field has not slowed down the project, a senior Iranian official said, adding that Tehran is in talks with Russia’s Gazprom over the development of two other fields.
I don’t want to collapse Theresa May’s government, pro-EU lawmaker Grieve says
LONDON (Reuters) – A leading pro-European Union lawmaker in Britain’s ruling Conservative Party said he did not want the government to collapse in the row over parliament’s role in the Brexit process.
Crisis-plagued Pyongyang university seeks revival after Trump-Kim summit
SEOUL (Reuters) – When the only private university in North Korea held a commencement in March, the school’s American president wasn’t there, blocked by Washington’s ban on travel to the country.
‘We don’t share certain values’, France says of U.S. migrant policy
PARIS (Reuters) – Europe and the United States do not share the same values, France’s government spokesman said on Tuesday as outrage grows over the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant parents and children arriving over the border fro…
North Korea’s Kim visit Beijing; South Korea, U.S. halt military drill
BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Beijing on Tuesday, where he will likely brief Chinese President Xi Jinping on his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump last week, as Washington and Seoul agreed to suspend a major…
Saudi Arabia’s women drivers get ready to steer their lives
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – On June 24, when Saudi women are allowed to drive for the first time, Amira Abdulgader wants to be sitting at the wheel, the one in control, giving a ride to her mother beside her.
