Saudi foreign minister says working on list of Qatar ‘grievances’
LONDON (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said on Friday the four Arab states that broke ties with Doha were drawing up a list of “grievances,” and would present them soon, warning that Qatar could not fund extremism and remain on good terms w…
As Brexit talks loom, UK PM May scrambles for deal to stay in power
LONDON/DUBLIN (Reuters) – Britain is likely to enter arduous talks on its exit from the European Union without a deal to keep Prime Minister Theresa May in power as negotiations with a Northern Irish “kingmaker” party grind into a second week.
Germany threatens retaliation if U.S. sanctions harm its firms
BERLIN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Germany threatened on Friday to retaliate against the United States if new sanctions on Russia being proposed by the U.S. Senate end up penalizing German firms.
Militant Saudi cleric survives assassination attempt in Syria
BEIRUT (Reuters) – A Saudi Arabian cleric placed by Riyadh and its allies on a blacklist of people they call terrorists linked to Qatar said he survived assassination by a suicide bomber in Syria on Friday.
Turkish PM urges opposition head to call off 20-day protest march
ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s prime minister urged the head of the main opposition party on Friday to end a 425 kilometer (265 mile) march from Ankara to Istanbul in protest over the jailing of one of his lawmakers, saying justice “cannot be sou…
European rights body criticizes draft Moldovan electoral law
KIEV (Reuters) – A pan-European rights body said on Friday there were significant concerns about a draft law in Moldova that would change the way the country conducts parliamentary elections and expand the powers of the president.
Helmut Kohl, father of German reunification, dies at 87
BERLIN (Reuters) – Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the architect of Germany’s 1990 reunification and mentor to Angela Merkel, has died at age 87, his Christian Democratic Union party (CDU) said on Friday.
100,000 civilians behind Islamic State lines in Iraqi city of Mosul
GENEVA (Reuters) – About 100,000 civilians remain trapped behind Islamic State lines in Mosul with a U.S.-backed government offensive to recapture the Iraqi city entering its ninth month, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said on Friday.
Lord’s Resistance Army steps up Congo attacks as U.S.-backed force pulls out: U.N.
GENEVA (Reuters) – The outlawed Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has stepped up attacks in Democratic Republic of Congo close to the South Sudanese border as a U.S.-supported regional task force pulls out, the U.N. humanitarian office said in a report on F…
Britain says no EU exit deal unless future relationship taken into account
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Friday that no deal could be struck on exiting the European Union unless the future relationship with the bloc was taken into account.
