Canada to impose sanctions on Venezuela’s Maduro and top officials
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada will impose targeted sanctions against forty Venezuelan senior officials, including President Nicolás Maduro, to punish them for “anti-democratic behavior”, the foreign ministry said on Friday.
Former head of Muslim Brotherhood dies in hospital: lawyer
CAIRO (Reuters) – The former leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Islamist movement, Mohamed Akef, has died in a Cairo hospital after an illness, the group’s lawyer said on Friday.
‘Unfortunate’ if incidents U.S. says harming diplomats politicized: Cuba
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Cuba’s foreign minister said on Friday it would be “unfortunate” if incidents the United States says are harming its diplomats in Havana were to be politicized, days after Washington raised the possibility of closing its emba…
UK’s May sets out transition plan in bid to unlock Brexit talks
FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May set out a plan on Friday to retain full access to the EU’s single market for two years after Brexit to try to reassure business and reset the tone of stalled negotiations with Brussels.
Germany’s surging far-right promises to disrupt cozy parliament
MUNICH/POTSDAM, Germany (Reuters) – More than 8,000 people — including hecklers blowing whistles — showed up in Munich for one of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s final speeches before Sunday’s national election that is expected to sweep her into a…
Kurds press historic independence vote despite regional fears
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi Kurds are expected to vote for independence in a referendum on Monday that neighboring countries and Western powers fear could break up the country and stir broader regional ethnic and sectarian conflict.
Spain sends more police to block Catalonia referendum
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain will send more state police to Catalonia to block any moves to hold a banned independence referendum, the interior ministry said on Friday.
Teenager appears in UK court charged with London bomb attack
LONDON (Reuters) – An 18-year-old man who came to Britain after his parents were killed in Iraq appeared in a London court on Friday charged with attempted murder in last week’s bomb attack on a packed commuter train in the British capital.
Britain’s May calls for post-Brexit transition in single market
FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May called on Friday for Britain to stay in the European Union’s single market during a roughly two-year transition out of the EU while offering concessions on a divorce deal as she appealed for a revi…
Turkish missile deal with Russia reflects stormy relationship with NATO
ABOARD THE TCG ALEMDAR (Reuters) – In blazing sunlight, two dozen U.S. and Turkish sailors on a NATO exercise lower an American diving bell from an advanced Turkish rescue ship, sending it deep under the Aegean Sea where it is secured to a submarine.
