Canada police seek suspects in restaurant bombing, 15 injured
TORONTO (Reuters) – Canadian police were looking for two suspects who walked into a crowded restaurant and detonated a bomb, injuring 15 people, and said on Friday the incident did not appear to be a hate crime or linked to international terror.
Irish PM ‘quietly confident’ amid brisk voting on abortion
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said he was quietly confident that a strong early turnout in Ireland’s abortion referendum on Friday would favor those seeking change in what only two decades ago was one of Europe’s most socially conserva…
EU may not enforce its rules on Italy, but financial markets will
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU officials will probably not do much to enforce their borrowing rules on Italy’s new government, but they are hoping they won’t have to because financial markets will do the job for them.
Maduro’s tweeters, activists cash in on Venezuela election win
CARACAS (Reuters) – Tweeted support for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s re-election? There could be a reward of 350,000 bolivars for you.
Exclusive: Blacklisted fan bypasses Russia’s World Cup security system
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A soccer fan blacklisted by Russian authorities for bad behavior was granted a document allowing him to attend World Cup matches, while several other fans have skirted a stadium ban, Reuters has found.
Spain’s Ciudadanos ready to put forward own motion of no confidence against Spain’s PM
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s Ciudadanos party on Friday said it was ready to put forward its own motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy over a graft case involving members of his People’s Party.
Voting brisk as Ireland embarks on abortion referendum
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Irish voters formed long queues at polls on Friday in an abortion referendum that could be a landmark on a path of change in a country that, only two decades ago, was one of Europe’s most socially conservative.
Telling truth to power still no easy task for Malaysia’s revved up media
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – In the first hours after the biggest political upset in Malaysia’s history, the chief editor of news site Malaysiakini gathered his team in their cramped newsroom in a shabby industrial estate on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur.
India PM Modi accepts fitness challenge but faces opposition backlash
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to accept a fitness challenge from one of the nation’s top cricketers, Virat Kohli, has been seized on by opposition politicians who say the leader should be spending time on other ch…
North Korea says it’s still open to talks after Trump cancels summit
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea said on Friday it was still open to talks with the United States after President Donald Trump called off a summit with leader Kim Jong Un, saying it hoped the “Trump formula” could resolve the standoff over its nuclear wea…
