What’s wrong with a joke? Macron defends air-conditioning gag in Africa
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron has a reputation for disarming hostile audiences with repartee and humor, but his latest verbal jousting on a trip to Africa has drawn criticism at home.
Turkey’s Denizbank says did not collaborate with gold trader Zarrab
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s Denizbank said on Thursday it did not have any dealings with the shipping group owned by gold trader Reza Zarrab, who is testifying in a U.S. federal court after pleading guilty to conspiring to evade U.S. sanctions agains…
France finds traces of radioactive cesium in Russian mushrooms
PARIS (Reuters) – France has found traces of radioactive cesium on mushrooms imported from Russia, the head of French nuclear regulator ASN said on Thursday.
Kremlin: U.S. sanctions aimed at turning business elite against Putin
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Thursday it was confident the United States was using sanctions in an attempt to turn Russia’s business elite against President Vladimir Putin.
West Africa population planners battle to woo Muslim hearts
DAKAR/LIBORE, Niger (Reuters) – Mabingue Ngom, the head of the U.N. Population Fund in West Africa, knows that if he wants to cut birth rates he can’t ignore religion.
U.N. tribunal seeks answers after stunned by courtroom suicide
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – A U.N. tribunal that was stunned by the courtroom suicide of a Bosnian Croat war criminal said on Thursday it was working with Dutch investigators to piece together how he smuggled a fatal dose of poison into the high-security bui…
Trump sparks outrage in UK with tweet to May after sharing far-right videos
LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump, in an unprecedented public attack on America’s closest security ally, sharply rebuked British Prime Theresa May on Twitter after Britain criticized him for retweeting British far-right anti-Islam videos.
NATO mulls ‘offensive defense’ with cyber warfare rules
TARTU, Estonia (Reuters) – A group of NATO allies are considering a more muscular response to state-sponsored computer hackers that could involve using cyber attacks to bring down enemy networks, officials said.
For some Russian oligarchs, sanctions risk makes Putin awkward to know
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The threat of new U.S. sanctions has spread anxiety among Russia’s wealthiest people that their association with President Vladimir Putin could land them on a U.S. government blacklist, members of the business elite say.
France finds traces of radioactive cesium in Russian mushrooms: ASN
PARIS (Reuters) – France has found traces of radioactive cesium on mushrooms imported from Russia, the head of French nuclear regulator ASN said on Thursday.
