Merkel urges EU to stick together after Brexit talks launched
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday urged the European Union’s remaining 27 members to stick together during talks on Britain’s exit from the bloc, which began on Monday.
Splintering of South Sudan war makes peace more elusive: United Nations
JUBA (Reuters) – South Sudan’s civil war has mutated from a two-way fight between the president and his ousted former deputy to a fragmented conflict, making it harder to put it back together and peace more elusive, the top U.N. peacekeeper in the country said.
Russia has no confirmation of IS leader’s death: Interfax
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Tuesday it could not confirm that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been killed in an air strike in Syria last month, the Interfax news agency quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov as saying.
‘He said he was Christian, they shot him,’ says son who saw father die
DAYR JARNOUS, Egypt (Reuters) – Egyptian schoolboy Mina Habib rarely leaves his house these days. The 10-year-old is still recovering from seeing Islamist gunmen kill his father for being Christian.
Suspect admits to blasts in Thailand, says acted against ‘coup government’
BANGKOK (Reuters) – A 61-year-old man arrested in connection with a bomb blast at a military-run hospital in Bangkok claimed responsibility for the attack on Tuesday saying he objected to unelected military rulers.
Talkin’ ’bout my generation: stark age divide in UK election
LONDON (Reuters) – Britons are politically more divided by age than at any time over the past four decades, with a surge in support for the opposition Labour Party among younger voters the key factor in a shock election result, pollster Ipsos Mori said…
European court angers Russia with ‘gay propaganda’ ruling
STRASBOURG/MOSCOW (Reuters) – The European Court of Human Rights ruled that a Russian law banning what it describes as the promotion of homosexuality to minors breached European treaty rules, but Moscow said it would appeal what it called an unjust dec…
French armed forces minister Goulard quits as probe overshadows her party
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s armed forces minister Sylvie Goulard quit the government on Tuesday saying she did not want to be considered in the coming reshuffle because of the investigation overshadowing her party’s affairs in the European parliament.
Migrants held in France after driver killed at Calais roadblock
LILLE, France (Reuters) – A van driver was killed on Tuesday when he crashed into a tail-back on a motorway near the northern French port of Calais where migrants had blocked the way with tree trunks, a local government official said.
Family of suspect in attack on London Muslims say they are devastated
LONDON (Reuters) – The family of a man suspected of driving a rented van into Muslim worshippers after they left prayers at a north London mosque said they are devastated at the “madness” of the attack.
