Cuban military’s tentacles reach deep into economy
HAVANA (Reuters) – American tourists strolling the ample squares and narrow streets of colonial Havana may not know it, but from novelist Ernest Hemingway’s famed Floridita bar to Sloppy Joe’s eatery, they are probably patronizing businesses owned by C…
Deadly tower blaze highlights London’s rich-poor divide
LONDON (Reuters) – Within a short walk from the social housing block in west London where 17 people – and perhaps many more – died in a devastating fire are some of Britain’s wealthiest streets, lined with elegant, multi-million-pound townhouses.
Since Brexit vote, Europeans warm again to EU
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europeans think much better of the EU now than they did a year ago when Britons dealt the Union a heavy blow by voting to leave, a survey showed on Thursday.
Trump to limit Cuba travel, restrict business deals with military: U.S. officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Friday will announce a plan to tighten rules on Americans traveling to Cuba and significantly restrict U.S. companies from doing business with Cuban enterprises controlled by the military, senior White H…
Spirits high among Kurds in Syria as coalition battles for Raqqa
RAQQA, Syria (Reuters) – Kurdish fighter Habun Kamishli proudly recalled the cat and mouse game she played with an Islamic State suicide bomber in the Syrian town of Raqqa, where the militant group is likely to make its last stand.
Colombia’s Farc leader says all weapons to be handed over by June 20
OSLO (Reuters) – The leader of Colombia’s Marxist FARC rebel group said on Thursday all the group’s weapons will be handed over to the United Nations by June 20 as planned, part of a peace deal to end more than 52 years of war.
Four killed in attack on mosque in Kabul
KABUL (Reuters) – Two gunmen and a suicide bomber killed at least four people and wounded eight more in an attack at a mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Thursday, the Interior Ministry said.
Rescue ships pick up 1,000 boat migrants: Italy coastguard
ABOARD VOS HESTIA RESCUE SHIP (Reuters) – Humanitarian rescue ships picked up more than 1,000 migrants from nine rubber and wooden boats off the coast of Libya on Thursday, Italy’s coastguard said.
Opposition grows to Egypt’s plan to cede islands to Saudi Arabia
CAIRO (Reuters) – Prominent Egyptian political parties on Thursday criticized President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s plan to transfer two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia and urged people to take to the streets in protest.
U.S. Senate votes near unanimously for Russia, Iran sanctions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate voted nearly unanimously on Thursday for legislation to impose new sanctions on Russia and force President Donald Trump to get Congress’ approval before easing any existing sanctions on Russia.
