Any check on North Korea has to involve China: U.S. general
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Any effort to curb North Korea’s weapons program will need to involve China, a senior U.S. military official said on Tuesday, just days after President Donald Trump said Washington might deal with Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile …
Bahrain says Trump better understands Iran and the region
MANAMA (Reuters) – Bahrain’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that U.S. President Donald Trump understood the region and the threats posed by their common adversary Iran better than Barack Obama.
Leftist Moreno wins Ecuador presidential election: electoral council
QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuadorean leftist Lenin Moreno won Sunday’s presidential election, the country’s electoral council said on Tuesday, after a tight contest with his right-wing opponent.
France’s Macron clashes with Le Pen, poll sees him as having best program
PARIS (Reuters) – Centrist Emmanuel Macron kept his position as favorite to win France’s presidential election after a televised debate on Tuesday night in which he clashed sharply with his main rival, Marine Le Pen, over Europe, just 19 days before th…
EU ambassador denounces Israel’s West Bank demolitions policy
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The European Union has expressed frustration with Israel over its demolition of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank, with the EU ambassador taking the unusual step of reading out a joint statement denouncing the practice.
Russian metro bombing puts Putin’s Syria policy to the test
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Islamist militants have targeted Russia many times before but Monday’s bombing of a metro train in St Petersburg was, for President Vladimir Putin, personal: it happened in his native city on a day he was making a visit back home.
Refugees recount South Sudan attack: ‘If you ran, you got shot’
NGOMOROMO, Uganda (Reuters) – It started out as a normal Monday morning in Pajok in South Sudan – children walking to school, shopkeepers raising their shutters and hawkers laying out their wares in the market, where a shower had just dampened down the…
U.N. chief warns U.S. funding cut could have devastating effects
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that a U.S. cut in funding for the U.N. Population Fund could have “devastating effects” on vulnerable women and girls around the world, a spokesman said.
Islamic State says U.S. ‘being run by an idiot’
CAIRO (Reuters) – Islamic State said on Tuesday the United States was drowning and “being run by an idiot”.
Venezuela security forces battle anti-Maduro protesters
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan security forces quelled masked protesters with tear gas, water cannons and pepper spray in Caracas on Tuesday after blocking an opposition rally against socialist President Nicolas Maduro.
