China urges restraint amid war of words between Trump and North Korea
BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) – China on Monday called for all sides in the North Korea missile crisis to show restraint and not “add oil to the flames” amid an exchange of increasingly bellicose rhetoric between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean …
Chastened Merkel looks for coalition partners after vote
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Angela Merkel began the tough task of trying to build a coalition government on Monday after securing a fourth term as chancellor in an election which saw her support slide and the far right making significant gains.
Swedish court sentences Syrian asylum seeker to prison for posing with war dead
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – A Swedish court on Monday sentenced a Syrian asylum seeker to eight months in prison after he posed for photos with dead bodies during the conflict in his home country.
Qatar Foreign Minister says Trump keen on dialogue to end Gulf crisis
PARIS (Reuters) – Qatar’s foreign minister said on Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump was keen on ending a diplomatic crisis in the Gulf region via dialogue between the various parties.
British police arrest seventh man over bomb attack on London train
LONDON (Reuters) – British police made a new arrest on Monday in their investigation into a bomb attack on a London underground train earlier this month.
Japan’s Abe announces snap election amid worries over North Korea crisis
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he would dissolve parliament’s lower house on Thursday for a snap election, as he seeks a fresh mandate to overcome “a national crisis”.
Jets strike U.S.-backed forces in eastern Syria: SDF
BEIRUT (Reuters) – U.S.-backed Syrian militias said Russian warplanes struck their positions in Deir al-Zor province on Monday, near a major natural gas field they seized from Islamic State in recent days.
Outside quake stricken Mexico City, most kids going back to school
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Most schools in Mexico City remained closed on Monday after last week’s deadly earthquake, but children outside the capital were set to return to their classrooms, although aftershocks were still jolting the country.
Iraqi Kurds shrug off threats to stage independence referendum
ERBIL/SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) – Voting began in northern Iraq on Monday in an independence referendum organized by Kurdish authorities, ignoring pressure from Baghdad, threats from neighboring Turkey and Iran, and international warnings it may igni…
Rap and the Party: China taps youth culture to hook millennial cadres
BEIJING (Reuters) – In his baseball cap and baggy yellow t-shirt, the rap star Li Yijie – better known by his stage name “Pissy” – is an unlikely face of China’s strait-laced ruling Communist Party.
