Spain offers to dock migrant ship at heart of Italy-Malta standoff
ROME/MADRID (Reuters) – Spain offered on Monday to take in a humanitarian ship stranded in international waters with 629 migrants aboard as Italy and Malta both continued to refuse to let it dock.
North Korea’s Kim enjoys Singapore sites on eve of historic summit with Trump
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who rarely ventures outside his isolated country, visited tourist sites on Singapore’s waterfront on Monday, hours before a historic summit with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Libyan forces’ battle for eastern city Derna in final stages: spokesman
BENGHAZI, Libya, (Reuters) – Forces loyal to Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar said their campaign against an armed coalition of local fighters and Islamists in the eastern city of Derna has reached its final stages after several days of heavy fighting….
Spain offers to take in drifting migrant ship Aquarius
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain offered on Monday to take in a rescue ship that is drifting in the Mediterranean sea with 629 migrants stranded on board after Italy and Malta refused to let it dock.
Who has Kim Jong Un’s ‘nuclear button’ in Pyongyang while he’s away?
SEOUL (Reuters) – When Donald Trump meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday for perhaps the most significant nuclear talks since the Cold War, the American president will have his link to the U.S. nuclear arsenal nearby at all times.
EU, U.N. urge Italy, Malta to let in drifting migrant ship
ROME (Reuters) – The European Union and the United Nations refugee agency called for a swift end to a political standoff that has left 629 migrants on a rescue ship drifting at sea after Italy refused to let it dock.
Turkey will drain ‘terror swamp’ in Iraq’s Qandil, Erdogan says
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey will drain the “terror swamp” in northern Iraq’s Qandil region, just as it cleansed Syria’s Afrin and other regions of Kurdish fighters, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday.
After ballot box fire, cleric Sadr says Iraqis should unite
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called for Iraqis to show unity rather than squabble over a possible rerun of the election his bloc won last month, in remarks that seemed aimed at defusing political tension after a storage site holding ballo…
French president’s reforms on track despite rail strike
PARIS (Reuters) – In early April, thousands of French rail workers filled a square outside one of Paris’s biggest stations at the start of a strike against President Emmanuel Macron’s reforms.
Trump, Pompeo positive ahead of North Korean summit; officials meet to close differences
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday his historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore could “work out very nicely” as officials from both countries sought to narrow differences on how to end a nuclear st…
