Re-elected, Venezuela’s Maduro faces wide criticism, U.S. sanctions
CARACAS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Critics at home and abroad on Monday denounced the vote that re-elected Venezuela’s socialist President Nicolas Maduro as a farce cementing autocracy and the U.S. government imposed new sanctions on the crisis-stricken oi…
With North Korea summit on shaky ground, Trump to press South Korean leader
SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three weeks before an unprecedented U.S.-North Korea summit is supposed to take place, President Donald Trump will meet South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday as U.S. officials try to figure out whether Pyongyang is …
Italian president hesitates as novice put forward as premier
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and the far-right League on Monday proposed Giuseppe Conte, a little-known law professor, as prime minister to lead their big-spending coalition government.
U.S. toughens stance on Iran, lists sweeping demands
WASHINGTON/ANKARA (Reuters) – The United States on Monday demanded Iran make sweeping changes — from dropping its nuclear program to pulling out of the Syrian civil war — or face severe economic sanctions as the Trump administration hardened its appr…
Venezuela’s Maduro faces fresh sanctions after disputed re-election
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s socialist President Nicolas Maduro faced growing international condemnation and possible fresh U.S. sanctions on Monday, after his re-election that critics denounced as a farce cementing autocracy in the crisis-stricken …
U.S.’s Pompeo pledges support for Georgia, calls for Russia troop pullout
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday pledged deeper security and economic support for Georgia and called on Russia to withdraw its forces from the regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia under a 2008 ceasefire agreement.
Gay man says pope told him: ‘God made you this way’ – paper
MADRID (Reuters) – A Chilean man who suffered clerical sexual abuse has said Pope Francis told him in a private conversation that God had made him gay and loved him that way, according to the Spanish newspaper El Pais.
Palestinian president to stay in hospital at least another night
RAMALLAH (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, hospitalized three times in the last week, will remain in hospital at least one more night, a senior Palestinian official said on Monday, though little information was given about the veteran le…
Italy parties propose unknown academic to head radical government
ROME (Reuters) – If you have never heard of Italy’s possible new prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, then you are in good company. Neither have the vast majority of Italians.
Syria’s army captures last insurgent area near Damascus
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Syrian army has restored control over all areas surrounding the capital Damascus for the first time since early in the seven-year-old war, after pushing Islamic State militants out of a south Damascus pocket, the military said.
