Egypt blocks financial newspaper website, widening media blackout
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt has blocked the website of one of its most prominent financial newspapers, the paper’s owner said on Sunday, expanding a media blackout initiated last week to curb what authorities called support for terrorism and fake news.
Philippine leader asks separatists, Maoists to join fight against Islamic State
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has appealed to Muslim separatists and Maoist-led rebels to join his government’s fight against Islamic State-linked militants.
After summits with Trump, Merkel says Europe must take fate into own hands
MUNICH (Reuters) – Europe can no longer completely rely on its allies, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday, pointing to bruising meetings of G7 wealthy nations and NATO last week.
A conservative ‘common man’ set to challenge Canada’s Trudeau
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Andrew Scheer, a social conservative who unexpectedly won the race to head Canada’s main opposition party, is a popular legislator who may be able to unite a divided movement as he prepares to take on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Thousands protest against Moscow housing resettlement, but numbers fall
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Thousands of Muscovites protested in the south-west of the Russian capital on Sunday against government plans to resettle millions of citizens from shoddy Soviet-era apartment blocks, but numbers had fallen compared to earlier rallie…
Descendants of Saudi Wahhabism founder distance themselves from Qatar
DUBAI (Reuters) – Descendents of the founding father of Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi brand of Islam have sought to distance themselves from Qatar’s ruling family, according to a statement published on Sunday, in a further sign of a rift among Gulf Arab state…
Italy’s Renzi suggests next election be synchronized with Germany’s
MILAN (Reuters) – Former prime minister Matteo Renzi suggested on Sunday that Italy’s next election be held at the same time as Germany’s, saying this made sense “from a European perspective”.
Germany to decide about troop withdrawal from Turkey by mid-June
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany, whose relations with Turkey have been strained by a series of rows, will decide within two weeks whether to withdraw troops deployed at Turkey’s Incirlik air force base, a German Foreign Ministry official said on Sunday.
Congo militiamen free one French, three Congolese mine workers
PARIS/KINSHASA (Reuters) – Militiamen have a freed French national and three Congolese who were kidnapped in March during an attack on Banro Corp’s Namoya gold mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
European allies see the two sides of Trump
TAORMINA, Italy (Reuters) – In Sicily, Donald Trump listened attentively during complex G7 debates over trade and climate change, smiled for the cameras, and for the most part refrained from provocative tweets.
