Merkel and Macron agree to draw up roadmap to deeper EU integration
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel and new French President Emmanuel Macron agreed on Monday to draw up a roadmap to deeper European Union integration and opened the door to changing the bloc’s treaties to facilitate ambitious reform.
India asks World Court to bar Pakistan from executing alleged spy
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – India asked World Court judges on Monday to order Pakistan to stay the execution of an Indian citizen Islamabad says is a captured spy, a case that has escalated tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.
U.N. almost doubles appeal for South Sudan refugees
GENEVA (Reuters) – U.N. agencies almost doubled their 2017 appeal for South Sudan’s refugees on Monday, saying they needed at least $1.4 billion to help alleviate “unimaginable” levels of suffering.
Islamic State shelling kills 7 in Syria’s Deir al-Zor city: monitor
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Heavy shelling by Islamic State militants killed at least seven people in the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zor on Sunday night, a war monitoring group said.
Gunfire rocks Ivory Coast cities as mutiny gathers pace
BOUAKE, Ivory Coast (Reuters) – Gunfire rocked cities in Ivory Coast on Monday as a mutiny by disgruntled soldiers gathered pace in defiance of government action against a revolt that threatens the country’s rapid emergence from a civil war.
China, Vietnam agree to keep South China Sea tensions in check
BEIJING (Reuters) – China and Vietnam will manage and properly control their maritime disputes, avoiding actions to complicate or widen them, so as to maintain peace in the South China Sea, the two nations said in a joint communique China released on M…
Indian woman battered to death with bricks after being gang-raped
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – An Indian woman was gang-raped and then brutally murdered by men who smashed her skull with bricks after she had threatened to inform authorities, police in the northern state of Haryana, said on Monday.
Philippine panel throws out impeachment complaint vs Duterte
MANILA (Reuters) – A Congressional panel of Philippine lawmakers on Monday found an impeachment complaint against President Rodrigo Duterte lacked substance and should go no further, a widely expected outcome underlining the maverick leader’s steadfast…
Cyber attack eases, hacking group threatens to sell code
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Governments turned their attention to a possible new wave of cyber threats on Tuesday after the group that leaked U.S. hacking tools used to launch the global WannaCry “ransomware” attack warned it would release more malicious co…
Syrian army sends reinforcements toward border with Iraq: rebels
AMMAN (Reuters) – The Syrian army aided by Iranian-backed militias was moving troops to a desert region near its border with Iraq and Jordan just as U.S. backed rebels are consolidating control in an area from which Islamic State militants had recently…
