Waiting for May, Brussels eyes December Brexit deal
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – When Theresa May visits Brussels on Friday, EU negotiators will be listening intently for signs the British prime minister is preparing to risk a domestic backlash and raise her offer to secure a Brexit deal in December.
Waiting for May, Brussels eyes December Brexit deal
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – When Theresa May visits Brussels on Friday, EU negotiators will be listening intently for signs the British prime minister is preparing to risk a domestic backlash and raise her offer to secure a Brexit deal in December.
U.S. pressed Saudis to ease Yemen blockade: sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson asked Saudi Arabia to ease its blockade of Yemen, two sources said, just days before the Saudi-led military coalition announced on Wednesday it would let aid flow through the Yemeni port of H…
PNG police enter abandoned Australian-run detention camp: refugees
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Papua New Guinea (PNG) police have entered an abandoned Australian-run detention camp seeking to get some 380 asylum-seekers who have barricaded themselves in there to leave, two of men told Reuters on Thursday.
Palestinian factions agree to hold general election by end-2018
GAZA/CAIRO (Reuters) – Palestinian factions, including rival groups Hamas and Fatah, have agreed to hold a general election by the end of 2018, a joint statement by several groups said on Wednesday following talks in Cairo.
Five U.S. citizens among Citgo executives detained in Venezuela: source
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Five of six executives of U.S.-based refiner Citgo who were arrested in Caracas this week are U.S. citizens, according to a source familiar with the matter, a possible complication in Venezuela’s growing sweep of corruption in th…
Italian magistrates investigate whether ex-Treasury official sold secrets
ROME (Reuters) – Italian magistrates are investigating whether a Treasury official sold confidential government information to her previous employers, Ernst & Young, two judicial sources involved in the case said on Wednesday.
“The people have spoken,” says Zimbabwe’s new leader
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s new leader Emmerson Mnangagwa told a cheering crowd in Harare on Wednesday that the country was entering a new stage of democracy following Robert Mugabe’s removal as president after nearly four decades in power.
Besieged Syrians eating trash, fainting from hunger: U.N. survey
GENEVA (Reuters) – Syrians in the besieged enclave of Eastern Ghouta are so short of food that they are eating trash, fainting from hunger and forcing their children to eat on alternate days, the U.N. World Food Programme said in a report on Wednesday….
Saudi-led coalition to reopen Yemen’s Hodeidah port, Sanaa airport for aid
DUBAI (Reuters) – The Saudi-led military coalition fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen said on Wednesday it would allow humanitarian aid access through Yemen’s port of Hodeidah and United Nations flights to the capital Sanaa, more than two weeks after bloc…
