Turkish foreign minister defiant on Germany rally, criticizes German authorities
HAMBURG/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s foreign minister arrived at the Turkish consulate in Hamburg on Tuesday to address a rally for Turkish voters in Germany despite what he called shameful actions by police to force the closure of the originally plan…
UK’s May defeated as lawmakers demand power to reject final Brexit terms
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s upper house of parliament voted on Tuesday to give lawmakers more power to reject the final terms of the country’s exit from the European Union, ignoring pleas from Prime Minister Theresa May’s government not to hamstring t…
Mexico worried by U.S. plan to separate mothers and kids: foreign ministry
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico is concerned by a U.S. government proposal to separate migrant mothers and children at the southern U.S. border, the country’s foreign minister said on Tuesday, while recognizing that at this stage it was only a possibili…
Disputed Irish loughs present Brexit conundrum for fishermen
WARRENPOINT, Northern Ireland (Reuters) – Mussel fisherman Brian MacDonald shares many of the concerns about Britain’s divorce from the European Union that are felt by tens of thousands of people who earn a living along the border between Northern Irel…
Trump administration pledges ‘great strictness’ on Iran nuclear deal
VIENNA (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration pledged on Tuesday to show “great strictness” over restrictions on Iran’s nuclear activities imposed by a deal with major powers, but gave little indication of what that might mean for the…
Revised U.S. travel ban will still curtail tourism, U.N. tourism body says
BERLIN (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s move to revise a travel ban on citizens of certain Muslim-majority countries will not lessen its impact on tourism, the head of the UN World Tourism Organization said.
Bulgarian court acquits vigilante migrant tracker
SOFIA (Reuters) – A Bulgarian man who posted a video showing three Afghan migrants lying tied up on the ground near the Turkish border was acquitted on Tuesday of illegally detaining them, after a court ruled there was insufficient evidence against him…
As drugs flood into Gaza, Hamas to get tougher on smugglers
GAZA (Reuters) – Marijuana and prescription painkillers are flooding into the Gaza Strip as never before, prompting officials from the ruling Islamist group Hamas to seek tougher punishments for smuggling drugs into the blockaded territory.
Israel’s women combat soldiers on frontline of battle for equality
ISRAELI MILITARY BASE, Golan Heights(Reuters) – Not far from the Syrian border, two Israeli soldiers – a man and a woman – faced off in a training session of Krav Maga, an Israeli self-defense technique.
Ukraine protesters keep graft trial on track despite health scare, bomb threats
KIEV (Reuters) – A judge ordered Ukraine’s top tax official on Tuesday to be jailed or pay a hefty bail pending his trial for suspected embezzlement, in a landmark ruling hailed by protesters as a blow for transparency in one of Europe’s most corrupt c…
