Iran’s Supreme Leader warns against disrupting presidential vote
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned on Wednesday that any attempts to disrupt the presidential election on May 19 would be dealt with harshly.
Trump meets Russia foreign minister amid Comey controversy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Russia’s top diplomat met President Donald Trump on Wednesday and praised the U.S. administration as problem solvers, just as the White House drew criticism over the firing of the FBI director who was leading a probe into Moscow’…
G7 seen urging Trump to stick with climate pact at summit
OSLO/PARIS (Reuters) – President Donald Trump will face pressure from other Group of Seven leaders at a summit this month to keep the United States in a global agreement to combat climate change after he put off a decision on whether to quit the pact.
Families pour out of Mosul as Iraqi troops push into last militant-held areas
HAMMAM AL-ALIL CAMP, Iraq (Reuters) – Thousands more people are fleeing Mosul every day since Iraqi troops began their push into the last Islamic State-held areas of the city last week, with food and water running out and the fighting killing increasin…
Monitor says air strikes kill 11 people north of Syria’s Raqqa
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Air strikes killed at least 11 people, including four children, in a village north of the Syrian city of Raqqa overnight, a war monitoring group said on Wednesday.
Germany’s SPD fighting to hang onto power in key state election
HERNE, Germany (Reuters) – Just a few years ago, Germany’s Social Democrats were pinning their hopes on Hannelore Kraft as their answer to Angela Merkel. Now Kraft is struggling just to stay on as a regional leader and hopes of her party unseating the …
Austrian vice chancellor quits over party in-fighting
VIENNA (Reuters) – Austrian Vice Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner, head of the conservative party in the centrist coalition government, said on Wednesday he was stepping down, having failed to quell in-fighting and speculation about the party’s future …
Stockholm truck attack suspect was not mentally ill: forensic board
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Rakhmat Akilov, the man suspected of ramming a truck into a crowd and killing five people in early April, was not suffering from a serious mental disorder at the time, according to the National Board of Forensic Medicine.
A Trump supporter, and his cab, play unexpected role in escape to Canada
Plattsburgh, N.Y. (Reuters) – Cab driver Curtis Seymour got the call at 3:30 a.m. to pick up a passenger at the Greyhound bus station in Plattsburgh, New York, about 25 miles (40 km) south of the Canadian border.
UK man held near May’s office appears in court on terrorism charge
LONDON (Reuters) – A man arrested near Prime Minister Theresa May’s office in London last month appeared in court on Wednesday and was remanded in custody after being charged with terrorism and explosives offences.
