Improving ties between Egypt and Hamas unsettle Palestinian politics
GAZA (Reuters) – A series of meetings between Hamas and senior officials in Cairo in recent weeks points to improving ties between Egypt and the Islamist Palestinian movement, with implications for Gaza, Palestinian politics and the wider region.
Turkey detains six Islamic State suspects planning attack on opposition march: governor
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish police detained six suspected Islamic State militants for planning to attack a three-week-old protest march led by the head of the main opposition party, a provincial governor was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
Mosul population ‘traumatized’ by conflict, infrastructure badly damaged
(This July 6 story has been refiled to remove extraneous material from quote by MSF member, in 13th paragraph.)
Seven die in downtown Johannesburg building blaze
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Seven people died in a high-rise apartment block fire in Johannesburg on Wednesday including a man who jumped to his death to escape the flames, emergency services said.
Venezuelan lawmakers beaten, besieged in latest violence
CARACAS (Reuters) – Pipe-wielding government supporters burst into Venezuela’s opposition-controlled congress on Wednesday, witnesses said, attacking and besieging lawmakers in the latest flare-up of violence during a political crisis.
Merkel takes aim at U.S. ‘winners and losers’ policy before G20
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel sharply criticized U.S. policy under President Donald Trump on Wednesday, two days before they are due to meet at the G20 summit, for being based on a “winners and losers” view of the world rather than…
France pays tribute to Veil, Holocaust survivor and women’s rights icon
PARIS (Reuters) – France paid homage on Wednesday to Simone Veil, who survived the Nazi death camps and went on to make her mark in the male-dominated world of French politics by championing the legalization of abortion as health minister in the 1970s….
Austria laments ‘misunderstanding’ with Italy on border controls
VIENNA (Reuters) – A dispute between Italy and Austria over possible controls on their shared border was a “misunderstanding”, Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern said on Wednesday, assuring Rome that his army had not put tanks at a crucial frontier cro…
Ahead of fractious G20, Germany and China pledge new cooperation
BERLIN (Reuters) – Ties between China and Germany are about to enter a new phase, China’s president said after meeting Germany’s chancellor, ahead of a G20 summit which is expected to highlight their differences with the U.S. administration on a host o…
Exclusive: Philippines’ Duterte proposed deal to end city siege, then backed out
MARAWI CITY, Philippines (Reuters) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was preparing to make a deal with Islamic State-inspired militants in the days after they laid siege to a southern city, but aborted the plan without explanation, an intermediary…
