Hariri says he will return to Lebanon within days
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Saad al-Hariri, who announced his resignation as Lebanon’s prime minister on Nov. 4 while in Saudi Arabia, said on Sunday he would return to his country within days.
Last exit from Myanmar, Rohingya wait for weeks on beach
AH LEI THAN KYAW, Myanmar (Reuters) – Some 1,000 Rohingya Muslims desperate to leave Myanmar are camped on this exposed, sun-baked beach on the Bay of Bengal waiting for a boat to carry them to sanctuary in Bangladesh.
Nearly 30 bodies found after clashes near Libyan capital: activists
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Twenty eight bodies with bullet wounds and torture marks were discovered on Saturday in an area west of Libya’s capital that has recently seen clashes between rival armed factions, a local human rights group said.
Merkel urges compromises as coalition talks enter final stretch
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday urged party leaders negotiating a tricky three-way coalition government to show more willingness to compromise, as support for her conservative bloc plunged to the lowest level in more than s…
France frets over internal threat two years after Paris attacks
PARIS (Reuters) – Two years after militants killed 130 people in coordinated attacks across Paris, French officials say there remains an unprecedented level of “internal” threat from both within and outside the country.
In demanding Hariri’s return, Lebanese find rare unity
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A country long divided by sectarian conflicts, Lebanon has found a rare point of unity since Saad al-Hariri’s shock resignation as prime minister: Lebanese of all stripes want him to come back from Saudi Arabia and to continue his wo…
Gala glitz masks Asia’s tensions as Trump winds up tour
MANILA (Reuters) – Leaders from across Asia joined U.S. President Donald Trump at an extravagant gala dinner in the Philippines’ capital on Sunday, a show of amity in a region fraught with tensions that have lurked behind his marathon tour of the conti…
Spanish PM, in Catalonia, calls for big turnout at December election
BARCELONA – Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy urged Catalans to turn out in force in a December election to “restore normality” to a region buffeted by attempts to split from Spain.
U.N. official says will raise sexual violence against Rohingya with ICC
DHAKA (Reuters) – A senior United Nations official said on Sunday she would raise the issue of persecution of Myanmar’s Rohingya minority, especially sexual violence and torture, with the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Britain won’t offer a new figure on Brexit bill to unlock talks: minister
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will not offer a figure or a formula for how much it believes it owes the European Union, Brexit minister David Davis said on Sunday, after the EU demanded that London spell out its approach to the final bill to unblock talks…
