Japan to consider building new nuclear plants: Nikkei
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s trade ministry will launch a panel to revise the government’s basic energy plan and consider a need to build new nuclear plants or replace existing plants in the future, the Nikkei business daily reported on Friday.
Election debacle leaves UK government in a minority on eve of Brexit talks
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May said she would lead a minority government backed by a small Northern Irish party after she lost an election gamble days before the start of talks on Britain’s departure from the European Union.
Officials probe U.S. cleric’s possible influence on London attackers: sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Investigators are looking into whether or not the Islamist militants who attacked civilians with a truck and knives in London last Saturday may have been inspired in part by a U.S. cleric, European and U.S. government officials s…
Australian counter-terrorism police conduct raids after fatal siege
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australian counter-terrorism police conducted raids in the southern city of Melbourne on Friday and questioned three men they said were suspected of providing weapons used in a deadly siege this week claimed by the Islamic State g…
Germany’s top Social Democrat loses ground vs Merkel in latest poll
BERLIN (Reuters) – The approval rating of Martin Schulz, Germany’s top Social Democrat, slumped to its lowest level in a poll conducted by Infratest dimap since the former European Parliament president was named as the party’s chancellor candidate in J…
Venezuela assembly plan threatens Chavez legacy: prosecutor
CARACAS (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro’s plan for a new popular congress to rewrite Venezuela’s constitution threatens to destroy the political legacy of former leader Hugo Chavez, the chief state prosecutor said on Thursday.
U.S. wary of French push for U.N. to back Sahel force: diplomats
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States is wary of a French push for the U.N. Security Council to authorize a West African force to combat terrorism and trafficking in the Sahel region because it does not want the world body to help fund it, diplo…
Putin says Kremlin critic Senator McCain ‘lives in Old World’
MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin has said U.S. Republican Senator John McCain, known for his anti-Kremlin rhetoric, lives in the “Old World” and that Russia and the United States must work together on common challenges.
UK police search Manchester property in bomb probe, release three
LONDON (Reuters) – British police searched a property in Manchester on Thursday in connection with a suicide bombing which killed 22 people in the northern English city last month and released another three people without charge.
With eyes on Libya, France cements Egypt security ties
CAIRO (Reuters) – France’s foreign minister said on Thursday he had firmed up security ties with Egypt, which was the “central element” to ensuring regional stability as the two countries seek to break the political impasse in neighboring Libya.
