Trumps seeks ‘very meaningful’ summit in Singapore with North Korea
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he had high hopes of “doing something very meaningful” to curtail North Korea’s nuclear ambitions at a summit in Singapore next month, after Pyongyang smoothed the way for talks by fre…
Rival Venezuela opposition candidates vow to stay in race, splitting vote
CARACAS (Reuters) – Evangelical pastor Javier Bertucci on Thursday ignored calls to withdraw from Venezuela’s presidential election in order to back a more prominent candidate, splitting Venezuela’s already fractured opposition.
Catalan ex-head proposes new candidate for regional leader
MADRID (Reuters) – Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont on Thursday proposed member of parliament Quim Torra as candidate for head of the Catalan government as the region attempts to put an end to a seven-month impasse and form an administration.
Singapore will host U.S.-North Korea summit, nuclear issue to dominate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Leaders of the United States and North Korea will meet for the first time when President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un hold a summit on June 12 in Singapore where the U.S. side will try to persuade Pyongyang to give up its nuclear…
Singapore will host U.S.-North Korea summit, nuclear issue to dominate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Leaders of the United States and North Korea will meet for the first time when President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un hold a summit on June 12 in Singapore where the U.S. side will try to persuade Pyongyang to give up its nuclear…
Gambia selling ex-leader’s luxury cars, planes amid mounting debt
BANJUL (Reuters) – Gambia is selling several planes and a fleet of luxury cars bought by former president Yahya Jammeh as it seeks to reduce a mountain of crippling debt contracted during the authoritarian leader’s decades-long rule.
Former Catalan leader proposes candidate for regional government
MADRID (Reuters) – Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont said on Thursday he proposed member of parliament Quim Torra as candidate for head of the Catalan government as the northeastern region attempts to put an end to a seven-month impasse and form …
Israel strikes Iranian targets in Syria after rocket fire
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Israel said it attacked nearly all of Iran’s military infrastructure in Syria on Thursday after Iranian forces fired rockets at Israeli-held territory for the first time in the most extensive military exchange ever between …
Exclusive: Sanctioned Russian tycoon hands back his private jets
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska has handed back three private jets he was leasing because U.S. sanctions imposed on him last month make it impossible to keep using the planes, the firm retained by the owners to sell the aircraft said o…
‘This is taking an awfully long time!’, says scientist before assisted suicide
BASEL (Reuters) – A 104-year-old Australian scientist killed himself in Switzerland on Thursday by lethal injection in an assisted suicide he hoped would trigger more lenient euthanasia laws in his home country.
