Mexicans pray as hope fades for quake victims, toll hits 319
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexicans packed churches on Sunday to pray for the victims of the country’s deadliest quake in 32 years as rescue teams searched against the odds for any survivors trapped under rubble six days after the tremor shook Mexico City…
While wealthy Mexicans swamped by quake aid, poor feel abandoned
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Relief supplies and volunteers are piling up at rescue sites in upscale districts of Mexico City following Tuesday’s deadly earthquake in a show of solidarity that has contrasted with the government’s struggle to get aid to peop…
Russia says one its generals killed by mortar shelling in Syria: TASS
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Sunday that one its general lieutenants, Valeryi Asapov, was killed by mortar shelling in Syria, the TASS news agency reported.
French Senate vote is blow to Macron, Conservatives keep majority
PARIS (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron suffered his first electoral setback on Sunday when his Republic on the Move (LREM) party won fewer seats than expected in elections for the French Senate.
Merkel hangs on to power but bleeds support to surging far right
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel won a fourth term in office on Sunday but Europe’s most powerful leader will have to govern with a far less stable coalition in a fractured parliament after her conservatives haemorrhaged support to a …
Zimbabwean activist pastor arrested for criticizing Mugabe government
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwean police arrested activist pastor Evan Mawarire of the #ThisFlag movement as he stepped down from his pulpit, accusing him of subversion for a series of social media posts that charged Robert Mugabe’s government had wrecked …
Merkel wins fourth term as far-right enters German parliament
BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives beat their rivals on Sunday to win her a fourth term in an election that will also bring a far-right party into Germany’s parliament for the first time in more than half a century, exit polls …
Myanmar says bodies of 28 Hindu villagers found in Rakhine State
YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar government forces found on Sunday the bodies of 28 Hindu villagers who authorities suspected were killed by Muslim insurgents last month, at the beginning of a spasm of violence that has sent 430,000 Muslim Rohingya fleeing t…
London mayor says Britain should not host President Trump on state visit
LONDON (Reuters) – London Mayor Sadiq Khan said on Sunday that it would be wrong for Britain to host U.S. President Donald Trump on a state visit, describing some of the U.S. leader’s views on Islam as “ignorant”.
U.S. air strikes kill 17 Islamic State militants in Libya: U.S. military
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Six U.S. air strikes on an Islamic State desert camp in Libya killed 17 militants and destroyed three vehicles, the U.S. military said on Sunday, the first American strikes in Libya since President Donald Trump took office in Jan…
