Merkel may win election, but lose her finance minister
SASBACHWALDEN, Germany (Reuters) – Wolfgang Schaeuble has won his parliamentary seat a dozen times, survived an attempt on his life and guided Angela Merkel through the euro zone crisis. Now, the German chancellor may have to sacrifice him to secure a …
Polish senate set to back judicial overhaul, defying protesters and EU
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s senate was expected to back new powers letting politicians appoint supreme court judges, defying protesters massed in the streets overnight against what they see as a move toward authoritarian rule.
Tepco spots possible nuclear fuel debris at another Fukushima reactor: Kyodo
TOKYO (Reuters) – Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco), the operator of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, may have found nuclear fuel debris below the damaged No. 3 reactor, one of three that had meltdowns in the 2011 disaster, Kyodo News reported on Fr…
Philippine leader to go after Maoist rebels after scrapping talks
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he was no longer interested in peace talks with Maoist-led guerrillas and planned to hunt down the insurgents once the military has retaken a southern city from Islamist rebels.
Berlin reviews Turkish arms requests as crisis deepens
ANKARA/BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany said on Friday it was reviewing applications for arms projects from Turkey, accusing its NATO ally of ramping up covert operations as an attempt by a Turkish minister to calm a deepening bilateral crisis fell flat.
Exclusive: Tanzania tells foreign Acacia Mining staff to leave
LONDON (Reuters) – Tanzania has asked foreign employees of London-listed Acacia Mining to leave the country in an escalation of a dispute that began in 2016 over allegations of tax evasion, a company spokesperson said on Friday.
Three Palestinians killed amid tensions at Jerusalem holy site
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Palestinian worshippers on Friday clashed with Israeli security forces outside a Jerusalem shrine in violence prompted by the installation of metal detectors at its entry point, and at least three Palestinians were killed.
Cheers for former Thai PM Yingluck as her trial enters last hearing day
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Hundreds of supporters cheered as Thailand’s former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Friday arrived for the final hearing in her trial on charges she was negligent in overseeing a rice subsidy scheme which wasted billions of do…
Surviving Tiananmen ‘Gentlemen’ mum on Chinese Nobel laureate’s death
BEIJING (Reuters) – Liu Xiaobo was one of the “Four Gentlemen” of Tiananmen Square, the group that staged a hunger strike in the final days of the 1989 pro-democracy protests in China and tried to hold off tanks and troops moving in to crush the studen…
Hezbollah, Syria army launch offensive at Syrian-Lebanese border
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the Syrian army launched an offensive to drive insurgents from their last foothold on the Syrian-Lebanese border on Friday, a pro-Damascus military commander said.
