Pregnant UK duchess Kate meets midwife who helped deliver baby Charlotte
LONDON (Reuters) – Kate, Britain’s Duchess of Cambridge, met the midwife who helped deliver her daughter when the heavily pregnant royal visited London’s Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) on Tuesday to become the charity’s patron…
Russian truce plan fails to halt bombing of Syria’s Ghouta
BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) – A Russian call for a five-hour truce on Tuesday failed to halt one of the most devastating campaigns of the Syrian war, where residents said government warplanes resumed striking the eastern Ghouta region after a brief lull.
EU chief negotiator warns Britain on time, transition period
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said on Tuesday talks between London and the bloc were not advanced enough to guarantee that Britain would get a transition agreement for after it leaves.
Scotland to introduce own Brexit bill, increasing pressure on UK government
EDINBURGH (Reuters) – Scotland’s devolved government will shortly introduce its own, alternative Brexit bill, increasing pressure on the UK government over legislation needed to pass in Britain’s national parliament.
Canada says gravely concerned by Myanmar’s jailing of journalists
GENEVA (Reuters) – Canada is gravely concerned by the imprisonment of two Reuters journalists in Myanmar, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland told the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday, adding that ethnic cleansing had taken place in Myanmar’s Rakhin…
Second Maldives minister resigns, urges international help to overcome crisis
(Reuters) – Maldives State Health Minister Dunya Maumoon has resigned, she said in a letter on Tuesday, grieved by the arrest of her father, the island nation’s longest-serving leader, after President Abdulla Yameen declared a state of emergency.
Syrian warplanes strike eastern Ghouta despite Russian truce
BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) – Syrian government warplanes struck the eastern Ghouta region on Tuesday and Damascus accused rebels of shelling a safe route out, despite a Russian call for a five-hour truce that failed to halt one of the most devastating cam…
Italy’s Berlusconi makes clear his PM choice will be Tajani
ROME (Reuters) – Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi made clear on Tuesday he would propose Antonio Tajani, the president of the European Parliament, as prime minister if his center-right bloc wins Italy’s March 4 election.
‘My life is in danger,’ North Korea leader’s half-brother quoted as saying months before poisoning
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Kim Jong Nam, the poisoned half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, told a friend in Malaysia his life was in danger six months before he was killed, a police official told a court on Tuesday.
Pakistan’s ruling party picks ousted PM’s brother as president
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistan’s ruling party on Tuesday chose Shahbaz Sharif as its president, officials said, replacing his brother and veteran leader Nawaz Sharif following his latest disqualification by the Supreme Court.
