It’s a boy: ‘Very excited’ Prince William takes Kate home after birth of prince
LONDON (Reuters) – Kate, wife of Prince William, smiled and waved as she left hospital on Monday after giving birth to a boy who is now fifth in line to the British throne.
PM May suffers another defeat in Britain’s upper house over EU rights
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s upper house of parliament handed the government its third defeat over Brexit in less than a week on Monday, voting down plans not to retain EU rights in national law before Britain leaves the bloc.
It’s a boy: UK’s Prince William brings children to meet newborn son
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince William brought his children, George and Charlotte, to meet their new brother a few hours after his birth at a London hospital on Monday.
Pressure grows on Trump to keep Iran nuclear deal alive
WASHINGTON/TORONTO (Reuters) – Western allies stepped up pressure on U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday to keep alive an international nuclear deal with Iran, with French President Emmanuel Macron due to urge him in person not to tear up the 2015 ag…
Britain to set up compensation scheme for ‘Windrush’ migrants
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will compensate some Caribbean immigrants who arrived in Britain in the decades after World War Two, after they and their children were recently wrongly labeled as illegal immigrants, interior minister Amber Rudd said on Mond…
Italy president appoints mediator to sound out chances of 5-Star/PD govt
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s president has asked the head of the lower house of parliament to sound out the possibility of the 5-Star Movement forming a government with the center-left Democratic Party (PD), a presidential official said on Monday.
In Spain, work starts to exhume bodies from Franco-era monument
SAN LORENZO DE ESCORIAL, Spain (Reuters) – Work started on Monday to exhume bodies of Spanish Civil War victims from a huge monument outside Madrid, built under the auspices of dictator Francisco Franco, following a six-year legal battle by relatives t…
Egypt’s Sinai battle chokes food, medical supplies to thousands: report
CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian military campaign to defeat Islamic State militants in the northern Sinai Peninsula is choking essential food and medical supplies to thousands of residents in the desert region, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
Unarmed soldiers join anti-government protests in Armenia
YEREVAN (Reuters) – A large group of unarmed Armenian soldiers joined anti-government protests in the capital Yerevan on Monday in a development the Armenian military said was illegal and would be harshly punished.
Kabul blast highlights risk to long-delayed Afghan vote
KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan officials pledged that Sunday’s deadly suicide bombing of a voter center in Kabul will not derail preparations for this year’s parliamentary elections but the attack has underlined the risks to an operation already clouded by d…
