Prince Charles awarded Order of Canada, country’s top honor
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Prince Charles has been awarded the Order of Canada, which is the country’s top civilian honor and recognizes outstanding achievement and service to the nation, officials said on Friday.
Philippine top cop says police try to save lives of drugs war victims
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines’ police chief on Friday stood by anti-narcotics officers and rejected a Reuters investigation that pointed to a pattern of police sending corpses of drug suspects to hospitals to destroy crime scene evidence and hide …
Germany sees Turkey’s Erdogan as ‘important guest’ at G20 summit
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government on Friday sought to contain a further erosion of ties with Turkey after it banned political appearances by President Tayyip Erdogan outside the G20 summit, a move Ankara said amounted to double standards.
Brazil unions protest Temer’s reforms amid political crisis
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Labor unions staged a nationwide strike on Friday to protest against legislative changes to Brazil’s labor and pension laws that are central to the economic reform agenda of embattled center-right President Michel Temer.
Islamic State under pressure in Iraqi and Syrian strongholds
MOSUL, Iraq/RAQQA, Syria (Reuters) – U.S.-backed Iraqi forces pressed Islamic State fighters holding out in Mosul’s Old City on Friday, while in Syria the militant group launched a counter-attack against an alliance of militias trying to oust it from i…
China sanguine as Trump-Xi ‘bromance’ sours over North Korea, Taiwan
BEIJING (Reuters) – China reacted relatively calmly on Friday after a series of diplomatic broadsides by the United States, expressing anger over new arms sales by Washington to Taiwan but hoping ties could soon be brought back on track.
Hungary’s Orban courts far-right voters ahead of 2018 vote
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban long proclaimed zero tolerance of anti-Semitism but has more recently risked angering Israel and Jewish people with remarks apparently courting radical right-wing voters ahead of 2018 elections…
Russia suspends payments to Council of Europe over Crimea row
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia has suspended payments to the Council of Europe for this year, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday, retaliation for its delegation there being stripped of its voting rights.
India’s Modi heads to Israel, lifting the curtain on close ties
NEW DELHI/TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Narendra Modi is making a first visit to Israel by an Indian prime minister next week, in a public embrace of a country that he has long admired for its military and technical expertise but which his predecessors kept at …
Islamic State counter attack causes fierce clashes in Syria’s Raqqa
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Islamic State mounted a fierce counter-attack against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance of militias in the city of Raqqa on Friday, but there were divergent accounts of its success in regaining ground.
