Colombian FARC leader Timochenko recovering from stroke
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s FARC rebel leader Rodrigo Londono, known by his nom de guerre Timochenko, was hospitalized after suffering a stroke and is expected to recover, doctors said on Sunday.
Britain says will move to control EU fishing in its waters
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will withdraw from an agreement that allows some other European countries to fish between six and 12 miles from its coast in a move to “take back control” of fishing policy, Environment Secretary Michael Gove said on Sunday.
No regional peace without Pakistan, U.S. senator McCain says in visit
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – U.S. Senator John McCain said on Sunday there could be “no peace” in Afghanistan or the rest of the region without Pakistan’s cooperation, as he visited Islamabad ahead of a review from the United States of its Afghan war strategy…
Sudan extends ceasefire ahead of expected lifting of U.S. trade embargo
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan will extend a unilateral ceasefire with rebels until the end of October, a decree by President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Sunday, two weeks before the United States plans to lift a 20-year-old trade embargo against Sudan.
German conservatives to promise full employment in party platform
BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives will promise to all but eliminate unemployment in Germany by the year 2025 when they announce their 2017 election campaign platform on Monday.
Spanish Civil War victim’s 91-year-old daughter finally buries her father
MADRID (Reuters) – On the cusp of her 92nd birthday and after decades of waiting and uncertainty, Ascensión Mendieta, daughter of a victim of political violence killed almost 80 years previously, finally buried her father on a bright Sunday morning in Madrid. Hundreds of mourners turned out to attend the non-religious ceremony in Madrid for Timoteo Mendieta, a trade unionist shot in the months following the Spanish Civil War and buried in a mass grave in a Guadalajara cemetery.
France’s Macron vows to ‘eradicate’ kidnappers of French citizen
BAMAKO (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday that France would “put all our energy towards eradicating” those responsible for kidnapping a French hostage shown in a video posted online by an al Qaeda-linked militant group.
Poll shows Fernandez bloc tied in Argentina congressional elections
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Candidates aligned with Argentina’s center-right government and those aligned with leftist ex-President Cristina Fernandez are in a technical tie in a key province ahead of October’s congressional elections, according to a poll…
U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces reinforce front lines in Raqqa
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) deployed around a thousand additional fighters to the front lines with Islamic State in Raqqa on Sunday, the SDF media office said.
U.S. warship sails near disputed island in South China Sea
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. warship sailed near a disputed island in the South China Sea claimed by China, Taiwan and Vietnam on Sunday in an operation meant to challenge the competing claims of all three nations, a U.S. Defense Department official s…
