France close to Qatar military, transport contracts: presidential source
PARIS (Reuters) – France is close to finalizing major military and transport contracts during a visit by Emmanuel Macron to Qatar on Thursday, a French presidential source said.
Last-minute wrangling as May heads for Brussels Brexit lunch
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – British negotiators were locked in last-minute talks with their European Union and Irish counterparts on Monday, trying to put together a Brexit deal that Prime Minister Theresa May might agree over lunch in Brussels.
Yemen’s Houthis blow up ex-president Saleh’s house
SANAA (Reuters) – Fighters from Yemen’s armed Houthi movement blew up house the house of ex-President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the center of the capital Sanaa on Monday, residents reported, as his whereabouts remain unknown.
May heads for Brussels as last-minute Brexit talks go on
BRUSSELS/DUBLIN (Reuters) – British negotiators were locked in last-minute talks with their European Union and Irish counterparts on Monday, trying to put together a Brexit deal that Prime Minister Theresa May might agree over lunch in Brussels.
Saudi warplanes strike Houthis as alliances shift in Yemen war
SANAA (Reuters) – Saudi-led coalition warplanes struck at Houthi militia positions in Yemen’s capital Sanaa for a second day on Monday in support of ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, a former Houthi ally who has now renounced his alliance with the Irani…
Spain’s Supreme Court refuses bail for former Catalonia cabinet members
MADRID (Reuters) – Former Catalonian vice-president Oriol Junqueras, former cabinet member Joaquim Forn and two leaders of civic groups ANC and Omnium Cultural, faced with charges of sedition, have been refused bail, Spain’s Supreme Court said on Monda…
Malta police arrest eight suspects in murder of blogger: PM
ROME (Reuters) – Maltese police on Monday arrested eight suspects in the murder of blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said, almost two months after her car was blown up while she was driving it.
Russia to start registering some foreign media as ‘foreign agents’ this week: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s justice ministry will start registering some foreign media as “foreign agents” this week, the RIA news agency cited a source in the Russian upper house of parliament as saying on Monday.
South Korea, U.S. launch air drills amid North Korean warnings of nuclear war
SEOUL/BEIJING (Reuters) – The United States and South Korea went ahead with large-scale joint aerial drills on Monday, a move North Korea had said would push the Korean peninsula to “the brink of nuclear war”, ignoring calls from Russia and China to ca…
Risks grow for Rohingya in Bangladesh’s teeming, squalid camps
(Reuters) – Bangladesh plans to allocate more land for camps housing Rohingya refugees as concerns grow over a possible outbreak of disease in crowded, makeshift settlements clustered at the country’s southern tip.
