France frets over internal threat two years after Paris attacks
PARIS (Reuters) – Two years after militants killed 130 people in coordinated attacks across Paris, French officials say there remains an unprecedented level of “internal” threat from both within and outside the country.
In demanding Hariri’s return, Lebanese find rare unity
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A country long divided by sectarian conflicts, Lebanon has found a rare point of unity since Saad al-Hariri’s shock resignation as prime minister: Lebanese of all stripes want him to come back from Saudi Arabia and to continue his wo…
Gala glitz masks Asia’s tensions as Trump winds up tour
MANILA (Reuters) – Leaders from across Asia joined U.S. President Donald Trump at an extravagant gala dinner in the Philippines’ capital on Sunday, a show of amity in a region fraught with tensions that have lurked behind his marathon tour of the conti…
Spanish PM, in Catalonia, calls for big turnout at December election
BARCELONA – Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy urged Catalans to turn out in force in a December election to “restore normality” to a region buffeted by attempts to split from Spain.
U.N. official says will raise sexual violence against Rohingya with ICC
DHAKA (Reuters) – A senior United Nations official said on Sunday she would raise the issue of persecution of Myanmar’s Rohingya minority, especially sexual violence and torture, with the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Britain won’t offer a new figure on Brexit bill to unlock talks: minister
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will not offer a figure or a formula for how much it believes it owes the European Union, Brexit minister David Davis said on Sunday, after the EU demanded that London spell out its approach to the final bill to unblock talks…
Support for Merkel’s conservatives falls to 6-yr low ahead of crunch coalition talks
BERLIN (Reuters) – Support for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives has fallen to the lowest level in more than six years, according to a poll on Sunday, as they prepare for more talks on a coalition deal with the environmentalist Greens and a pro-…
British ministers rally around Foreign Secretary Johnson over Iran
LONDON (Reuters) – British ministers rallied around Boris Johnson on Sunday, saying the foreign secretary was doing a “great job” and had no reason to resign over remarks that critics say may prompt Iran to extend the prison sentence of a jailed aid wo…
No figure on cost of Brexit offered to unlock talks, British minister says
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will not offer a figure or a formula for how much it believes it owes the European Union, Brexit minister David Davis said on Sunday, after the EU demanded that London spell out its approach to the final bill to unblock talks…
Israel signals free hand in Syria as U.S., Russia expand truce
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel signaled on Sunday that it would keep up military strikes across its frontier with Syria to prevent any encroachment by Iranian-allied forces, even as the United States and Russia try to build up a ceasefire in the area.
