Turkey or Kurdish militias? Pick a side, Turkish minister tells France
PARIS (Reuters) – Turkey warned France on Thursday that it needed to choose who it wanted as an ally to fight Islamic State in Syria, and urged it to do what is necessary to ensure Kurdish militias leave the northern Manbij region.
Italy government talks end in stalemate, more next week
ROME (Reuters) – Talks to try to break the stalemate following Italy’s inconclusive election have failed to make progress, the president said on Thursday, calling for parties to be responsible in fresh consultations next week.
Recovering daughter of ex-spy poisoned in UK makes first comment after attack
LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Yulia Skripal on Thursday made her first public comments since being poisoned in Britain last month with her father, a Russian former double-agent, saying she was getting stronger by the day but shedding no new light on the in…
In Hungary, one fence came down, another went up
BACSSZENTGYORGY, Hungary (Reuters) – During her long life, Terez Majsztrovics has never left her small village, hidden at the end of an asphalt track amid the rolling hills of the Hungarian lowlands.
Germany’s Merkel to visit Trump, as trade, Iran deadlines loom
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit U.S. President Donald Trump on April 27, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday, as differences over a nuclear deal with Iran and trade cast a shadow over the transatlantic relationship.
Russian historian who exposed Stalin’s crimes cleared of child pornography: TASS
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian historian whose exposure of Soviet leader Josef Stalin’s crimes angered state officials was cleared of child pornography charges on Thursday, the TASS news agency reported.
Vietnam jails prominent human rights lawyer, five other activists
HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnamese human rights lawyer and activist Nguyen Van Dai was jailed for 15 years on Thursday, his wife said, along with five other activists who were given prison terms of 7-12 years.
U.N. quietly steps up inspection of aid ships to Yemen
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations is beefing up its inspections of ships bringing humanitarian aid to Yemen to ensure that no military items are being smuggled and to speed delivery of desperately-needed relief supplies, U.N. and Saudi officials sa…
Exclusive: Pathologist challenges Philippine officials’ view that U.S. cameraman committed suicide in jail
(Reuters) – An American cameraman and filmmaker who died in December in a jail in the Philippines suffered blunt-force trauma, and his body had markings inconsistent with the official account by Philippine authorities that he hanged himself, a private …
Italian government talks show no sign of breaking deadlock
ROME (Reuters) – Italian President Sergio Mattarella faced an uphill task trying to put together a new government on Thursday, with centre-right parties split on their priorities and the centre-left vowing to head into opposition.
