Merkel says wants close cooperation with France’s Macron
AACHEN, Germany (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday she wanted close cooperation with French President-elect Emmanuel Macron and that their two countries would do everything to shape European policy.
Bus crash kills 17 in southwest Turkey tourist town
ANKARA (Reuters) – Seventeen people were killed and 13 injured when a bus carrying Turkish tourists crashed near the southwestern holiday town of Marmaris, a local governor said on Saturday.
Pope canoness Fatima visionaries, giving Church new children saints
FATIMA, Portugal (Reuters) – Pope Francis gave the Catholic Church two of its youngest saints on Saturday, canonizing shepherd siblings believed to have seen the Madonna 100 years ago in a Portuguese town that is now a major pilgrimage site.
Italy expels Tunisian connected to Berlin market attacker
ROME (Reuters) – Italy has expelled a Tunisian citizen suspected of having been in contact with the man who killed 12 people by driving a truck through a Christmas market in Berlin last year, the interior ministry said on Saturday.
Japan favors Aegis Ashore over THAAD to boost missile defense: sources
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan is leaning towards choosing the Aegis Ashore missile-defense system over another advanced system called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), government and ruling party sources said.
UK Labour deputy leader warns of ‘Thatcher style’ landslide
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Conservative party will win a “Margaret Thatcher style” landslide in next month’s national election unless the Labour party improves its poll ratings, according to Tom Watson, Labour’s deputy leader.
Ten gunned down near China ‘Belt and Road’ projects in Pakistan
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Ten laborers were gunned down in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday while working on link roads to connect outlying towns to the country’s $57-billion Chinese “Belt and Road” initiative, security officials confirmed.
Mutinous soldiers cut off Ivory Coast’s second city
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Mutinous soldiers in Ivory Coast shot three people on Saturday and cut off access to the second largest city, Bouake, as a revolt escalated over demands for bonus payments.
Palestinians hold local elections in West Bank but not Gaza
RAMALLAH, West Bank/GAZA (Reuters) – Palestinians held municipal elections on Saturday in the occupied West Bank, a first democratic exercise in years, but one that has also raised tensions between the rival Fatah and Hamas movements.
UK foreign minister says Russia may try to interfere in election
LONDON (Reuters) – There is a “realistic possibility” Russia might try to interfere in Britain’s national election next month, according to Boris Johnson, Britain’s foreign secretary.
