Saudi Arabia launches initiative to improve country’s lifestyle
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia plans to spend 50 billion riyals ($13.33 billion) by 2020 on an initiative to promote entertainment, health, sports and education as part of a modernizing drive by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Dozens more caravan asylum seekers let in to U.S. from Mexico
TIJUANA (Reuters) – Dozens more Central American caravan migrants were let into the United States to begin pleading their case for asylum on Thursday despite sharp criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump, bringing the total to 158 since last weekend…
Syria’s war grinds on, no respite for civilians, U.N. says
GENEVA (Reuters) – Syria’s war rages unabated despite a fall in the number of besieged civilians, a senior U.N. official said on Thursday, warning of a potential worsening of the conflict in the rebel-controlled governorate of Idlib.
Canadian officials in Nigeria work with U.S. to stem asylum seekers
TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada has officials working with U.S. visa officers in Lagos, Nigeria, as Ottawa leans on its neighbor to stop issuing so many visas to Nigerians who then make refugee claims in Canada.
U.S. says will be consequences for China’s South China Sea militarization
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has raised concerns with China about its latest militarization of the South China Sea and there will be near-term and long-term consequences, the White House said on Thursday.
U.S. prisoner release would be goodwill move by North Korea: White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said on Thursday it would welcome the release of three Americans imprisoned in North Korea as a goodwill gesture before a planned summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, but…
Peruvian prosecutors say Canadian was lynched after killing shaman
LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian prosecutors have concluded that a Canadian man shot a medicine woman to death in an Amazonian community before he was lynched in retribution last month, a representative of Peru’s attorney general’s office said on Thursday.
Europeans push last bid to salvage Iran deal, but work on plan B
PARIS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European powers still want to hand Donald Trump next week a plan to save the Iran nuclear deal, but they have also started work on protecting EU-Iranian business ties if the U.S. president makes good on a threat to withdraw, …
Germany’s far-right AfD helping make anti-Semitism ‘presentable’: official
BERLIN (Reuters) – A senior German government official accused the opposition far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party of helping make anti-Semitism “presentable” again in Germany by challenging a longtime consensus about how to deal with its Nazi…
Czechs drop charges against ruling party No.2, PM Babis still investigated
PRAGUE (Reuters) – A Czech state attorney has dropped charges against the ruling ANO party’s number two Jaroslav Faltynek and three others but will further pursue fraud charges against Prime Minister Andrej Babis, a spokeswoman said on Thursday.
