Frankfurt to evacuate 60,000 people to defuse British WWII bomb
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Around 60,000 inhabitants of Germany’s financial capital Frankfurt will be ordered to leave their homes on Sunday while a large World War Two bomb discovered at a building site is made safe, the police said.
EU rebuffs British gripes on Brexit flexibility
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s chief negotiator on Britain’s exit from the bloc hit back at British complaints about his “inflexible” approach to talks, saying on Monday that London still needed to make clear its positions.
Greece offers latest effort to reform public sector, a key bailout demand
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s government presented a three-year plan to overhaul the country’s public sector on Wednesday, the latest attempt to fix a problem that helped plunge the country into its worst crisis in decades seven years ago.
Czech committee recommends letting police charge PM candidate Babis
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Czech lawmakers should allow police to charge Andrej Babis, the leader of the most popular party and candidate for prime minister, with subsidy fraud, parliament’s immunity committee recommended on Wednesday.
France sees talks on post-Iran nuclear deal, ballistic missile use
PARIS (Reuters) – France suggested on Wednesday that the nuclear deal Iran struck with world powers in 2015 could be supplemented through “future consultations” to include the post-2025 period and tackle Iran’s development of ballistic missiles.
Sore at Macron’s ‘dictatorship’ criticism, Venezuela blasts France
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela accused France on Wednesday of joining an “imperialist” campaign after President Emmanuel Macron portrayed the widely criticized socialist government as dictatorial.
Iraqi forces begin house-by-house fight for last IS holdout at Tal Afar
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Hundreds of additional troops were sent into al-‘Ayadiya on Wednesday, as Iraqi forces came under increasing pressure to clear Islamic State fighters from their final position in the group’s former stronghold of Tal Afar, military o…
German and don’t know who to vote for? Ask the Vote-O-Meter
BERLIN (Reuters) – Three weeks before Germany’s election and with at least one poll suggesting nearly half of all voters don’t know what they will do, the government has unveiled an updated online tool to help them decide.
U.S. troops risk inflaming clan conflict after deadly Somalia raid
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A raid involving U.S. troops in Somalia has caused a rift between the precarious U.S.-backed government and a powerful clan that says innocent farmers were massacred, months after President Donald Trump approved stepped-up operati…
At least 11 Afghan civilians killed in air strike, local official says
KABUL (Reuters) – At least 11 Afghan civilians were killed and 16 wounded on Wednesday when a NATO helicopter attacked a house where Taliban insurgents had taken shelter in Logar province, east of the capital, Kabul, the local governor said.
