SPD leader wants Merkel to relinquish finance ministry: Handelsblatt
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) leader Martin Schulz wants Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives to leave the powerful finance ministry to his center-left party in coalition talks, a report in business daily Handelsblatt said.
Fifty Chinese couples marry in mass ceremony in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Fifty couples from China tied the knot in the Sri Lankan capital on Sunday in a mass wedding ceremony, conducted in the island’s Buddhist traditions, as the island aims to woo more tourists.
U.N. to vote Monday on call for U.S. Jerusalem decision to be withdrawn
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council is due to vote on Monday on a draft resolution calling for the withdrawal of U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, diplomats said, a move l…
Kremlin says U.S. tip-off helped Russia halt terrorist attack
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin telephoned U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday to thank him for a tip-off that helped prevent a terrorist bomb attack on a cathedral in the Russia city of St Petersburg, the Kremlin said.
Ukrainian police clash with Saakashvili supporters in Kiev
KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian police clashed with backers of opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili on Sunday and prevented them from forcing their way into Kiev’s October Palace after a rally against President Petro Poroshenko.
Explainer: Myanmar wields colonial-era law against Reuters journalists
(Reuters) – Myanmar has accused Reuters reporters Wa Lone, 31, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 27, of breaching the country’s Official Secrets Act, a little-used hangover from colonial rule. Sam Zarifi, secretary general of the International Commission of Jurists (IC…
Majority of Peruvians want president ousted, poll finds
LIMA (Reuters) – A majority of Peruvians want embattled President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski to leave office, a poll showed on Sunday, as his approval ratings plummeted to new lows following revelations that businesses tied to him received payments from Bra…
Remains of exiled Italian king return to Italy
MILAN (Reuters) – The remains of Victor Emmanuel III, who reigned as Italy’s king through two world wars and died in exile in 1947, were flown back from Egypt on Sunday for reburial at a family mausoleum near Turin.
Chile choosing between billionaire and ex-journalist for president
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chileans voted in a runoff presidential election on Sunday that will determine if the world’s top copper producer stays on its center-left course or joins a tide of Latin American nations turning to the right in recent years.
Suicide bombers attack church in Pakistan’s Quetta before Christmas, killing nine
QUETTA, Pakistan/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Two suicide bombers stormed a packed Christian church in southwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least nine people and wounding up to 56, officials said, in the latest attack claimed by Islamic State in the co…
