Colombia and FARC rebels to wage joint fight against coca cultivation
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s government and Marxist FARC rebels announced a plan on Friday to substitute illegal crops and eradicate vast tracts of coca leaf, the raw material for cocaine, over the next year as part of a peace deal to end a half-centu…
Merkel: Security will be key issue in Germany’s 2017 election campaign
GREIFSWALD, Germany (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday that security would be a major issue in the campaign leading up to a federal election on Sept. 24, in which she is seeking a fourth term.
One thousand boat migrants rescued, one found dead in Mediterranean
ROME (Reuters) – Some 1,000 migrants were saved from leaky boats in the central Mediterranean on Friday and one person was found dead, Italy’s coast guard said.
French foreign minister heads to Iran amid Trump uncertainty
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s foreign minister travels to Iran on Monday, seeking to reaffirm Europe’s commitment to the nuclear deal that U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to annul.
Fillon’s French presidential bid may be hurt by probe into wife’s work
PARIS (Reuters) – An investigation into allegations of “fake work” against the wife of French presidential frontrunner Francois Fillon may be harming his popularity, an opinion survey suggested on Friday.
Trump says Mexico has taken advantage of U.S. ‘for long enough’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump kept up his criticism of Mexico on Friday, saying it “has taken advantage of the U.S. for long enough,” as a crisis over border security and trade deepened.
WFP, short of funds, halves food rations to displaced Iraqis
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – The World Food Programme said on Friday it had halved the food rations distributed to 1.4 million Iraqis displaced in the war against Islamic State because of delays in payments of funds from donor states.
Jihadists, Syrian rebels in heavy clashes in northwest: rebel, monitors
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Jihadists from al Qaeda’s former Syria branch and rebels who have recently joined forces against them fought in heavy clashes in the northwest of the country on Friday, a rebel official and a monitoring group said.
Dozens of survivors pay homage to victims of Auschwitz
OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) – Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo and some of the last survivors of Auschwitz paid homage to the victims of the Holocaust on Friday, 72 years after the Nazi death camp was liberated in the final throes of World War Two.
Social media battle lines drawn ahead of Turkish vote
ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Campaigning has not officially started, but a string of video “selfies” by the likes of sports stars, actors and cabinet ministers has already launched a divisive debate on plans that would hand Turkish President Tayyip Erdo…
