Support for Brazil leftist Haddad leaps with Lula backing: poll
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Former Sao Paulo Mayor Fernando Haddad would surge to second place in Brazil’s presidential race if he were to be backed as the Workers Party candidate by jailed former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a new poll showed on Frid…
Trump vows to ‘straighten out’ G7 trade ahead of tense meeting
LA MALBAIE, Quebec (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out at Canada and the European Union on Friday and said he plans to leave a meeting with leaders of the Group of Seven nations early as fears of a trade war ratcheted higher.
China’s Xi awards ‘best friend’ Putin friendship medal, promises support
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping gave visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin China’s first friendship medal on Friday, calling him his best friend, underscoring the close ties between the two despite deep reservations many Western na…
Air strikes kill at least 44 in Syria, monitor says; it suspects Russia
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Air strikes on a village in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province killed at least 44 people overnight, the highest death toll in a single attack on the region this year, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday.
Activists urge oil executives to heed pope at Vatican energy conference
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Environmentalists and aid agencies urged executives of the world’s top oil companies attending a Vatican conference on climate change on Friday to heed Pope Francis’s warnings about global warming.
Austria to shut down mosques, expel foreign-funded imams
VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria’s right-wing government plans to shut seven mosques and could expel dozens of imams in what it said was “just the beginning” of a push against radical Islam and foreign funding of religious groups that Turkey condemned as rac…
T-shirts, tacos, and tourism: Singapore businesses cash in on Trump-Kim mania
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – From summit-themed burgers and online scalpers peddling “World Peace” medallions and “Peace Out from Lion City” T-shirts, Singaporeans are cashing in on a historic meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim …
Brace for a possible ‘Brexit meltdown’ but don’t panic, UK’s Johnson says: BuzzFeed
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s foreign minister Boris Johnson warned there could be a Brexit meltdown but it will be “all right in the end” and said that U.S. President Trump would take a tougher stance were he leading the talks, according to BuzzFeed.
Lebanon freezes UNHCR residency applications: foreign minister
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil has directed authorities to freeze all residency applications submitted by the United Nations’ refugee agency UNHCR, his office said in an emailed statement on Friday.
Myanmar hardline monks vow to stay on Facebook despite ban
YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar’s hardline monks will dodge bans on Facebook and keep using the social media giant to “tell the truth”, they said on Friday, after it barred several Buddhist nationalists for hate messages targeting Rohingya Muslims.
