Cyprus presidential poll heads for runoff, frontrunners to seek allies
ATHENS (Reuters) – Incumbent Nicos Anastasiades will face leftist-backed candidate Stavros Malas in a presidential runoff on Feb. 4, election results showed on Sunday, in a race that could define whether peace talks with Turkish Cypriots can resume thi…
Cyprus presidential poll heads to runoff, frontrunners to seek allies
ATHENS (Reuters) – Incumbent Nicos Anastasiades will face leftist-backed candidate Stavros Malas in a presidential runoff on Feb. 4, election results suggested on Sunday, in a race which could define whether peace talks with Turkish Cypriots can resume…
Compromise, German SPD’s Schulz urges his own party and Merkel
BERLIN (Reuters) – The leader of Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) called on party rank-and-file to show readiness to compromise when they vote on the outcome of coalition talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives, amid growing nervousness abo…
Erdogan says Turkey will ‘clean’ entire Syrian border
ANKARA/BEIRUT (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey will “clean” its entire border with Syria in a sign that the Turkish offensive on the Syrian Kurdish YPG group in northern Syria’s Afrin region could be extended further.
Israel and Poland clash over proposed Holocaust law
JERUSALEM/WARSAW (Reuters) – Israel’s prime minister and Holocaust survivors on Sunday bridled at a draft Polish law that would make it illegal to suggest Poland bore any responsibility for Nazi atrocities committed on its soil.
Trump casts pall on inauguration of U.S. statue of Marti in Cuba
HAVANA (Reuters) – U.S. supporters of improved relations with Cuba joined the top leadership of the Caribbean country on Sunday to inaugurate a replica of a New York statue of its independence hero Jose Marti.
Approval rating falls for Peru’s Kuczynski on Fujimori pardon: poll
LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski’s approval rating has fallen to 19 percent since he granted a pardon to authoritarian former President Alberto Fujimori, a decision that has deeply divided the South American country, a poll sho…
Malaysia criticizes opposition party meeting with EU ambassadors
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia has criticized the federal opposition alliance’s meeting with senior EU ambassadors last week and its call for foreign intervention in the forthcoming general election.
China declares intention to improve ties with Japan
BEIJING (Reuters) – China hopes to work with Japan to establish more cordial relations, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Japanese counterpart on Sunday, aiming to move on from a series of disputes, some dating back to before World War Two.
British minister calls for unity after latest Brexit skirmishes
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Cabinet Office minister David Lidington urged his party to unite to heal growing rifts over how to leave the European Union that could threaten the prime minister’s fragile grip on the leadership.
