Pro-business parties try to hem German Greens in with red lines
BERLIN (Reuters) – The premier of Germany’s most populous region warned that the Green party would have to step back from some of its environmentalist red lines if it wanted to join a mooted three-party coalition led by conservative Chancellor Angela M…
World Food Program seeks 75 million dollars for Rohingya crisis
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) – The World Food Program (WFP) appealed on Sunday for 75 million dollars in emergency aid over the next six months to help alleviate the suffering of Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar.
Soldiers kill six in Cameroon amid secessionist protests: mayor
BAMENDA, Cameroon (Reuters) – Cameroonian soldiers killed six people and wounded six others on Sunday in the town of Kumbo during protests by activists calling for independence for English-speaking regions of the central African nation, the town’s mayo…
One eve of Gaza reconciliation, Hamas frees Fatah men
GAZA (Reuters) – Hamas freed five prisoners belonging to the rival Fatah party on Sunday and Egypt sent a delegation to the Gaza Strip to oversee the Islamist group’s planned handover of administrative control of the Palestinian enclave to a unity gove…
Austrian chancellor pledges to get to the bottom of smear campaign
VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria’s Social Democratic (SPO) Chancellor Christian Kern pledged on Sunday to get to the bottom of his party’s connection to a smear campaign against the head of the main opposition People’s Party two weeks before a parliamentary …
Man kills two people at French train station before being shot dead: police source
MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) – A French soldier shot dead a man after he stabbed and killed two passers-by at Marseille’s main train station on Sunday, the French interior ministry said, in what police sources called a “likely terrorist act”.
Canada police probe Edmonton stabbing, vehicle attacks as ‘acts of terrorism’
TORONTO (Reuters) – Canadian police said they were investigating violent Saturday night attacks in Edmonton as “acts of terrorism” after a man struck a police officer with a car and stabbed him before hitting four pedestrians with a second vehicle.
Turkey no longer needs EU membership but won’t quit talks – Erdogan
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey no longer needs to join the European Union but will not unilaterally abandon the stalled EU accession talks, President Tayyip Erdogan told parliament on Sunday.
Defiant Catalans vote on split from Spain despite crackdown
BARCELONA (Reuters) – Spanish riot police burst into polling stations across Catalonia on Sunday, confiscating ballot boxes and voting papers to try to halt a banned referendum on a split from Spain as Madrid asserted its authority over the rebel regio…
Match North Korea overture with Iran offer, Germany tells U.S.
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany welcomed U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s announcement that he was “probing” opportunities for dialogue with North Korea about its nuclear weapons program and called for Washington to take a similar step with Iran.
