Venezuela’s jailed Lopez is well, urges more protests: wife
CARACAS (Reuters) – Jailed opposition Venezuelan politician Leopoldo Lopez is well and is urging street demonstrators to keep up massive anti-government protests, his wife said on Sunday after her first visit with the former presidential hopeful in ove…
City of Montreal declares state of emergency from flooding
(Reuters) – The city of Montreal declared a state of emergency on Sunday afternoon as floodwaters spread from torrential rains that have lashed the city since early on Friday, causing the worst flooding in decades, city officials said.
Netanyahu tosses Hamas policy paper on Israel into waste bin
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday symbolically tossed into a bin a Hamas policy paper published last week that set out an apparent softening of the Palestinian Islamist group’s stance toward Israel.
Iran minister warns Saudi Arabia after ‘battle’ comments: Tasnim
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran will hit back at most of Saudi Arabia with the exception of Islam’s holiest places if the kingdom does anything “ignorant”, Tehran’s defense minister was quoted as saying on Sunday after a Saudi prince threatened to move the “bat…
Macron banks on de Gaulle’s ‘majority amplifier’ to govern
PARIS (Reuters) – Unknown just three years ago, and with a party only 12 months old, Emmanuel Macron has seized the presidency against all the odds. His challenge now is to govern.
Israeli police kill Palestinian girl who tried to attack them in Jerusalem: police
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli paramilitary police officers shot and killed a knife-wielding Palestinian teenage girl who tried to attack them at an entrance to Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday, a police spokeswoman said.
Head of Islamic State in Afghanistan confirmed killed
KABUL (Reuters) – The head of Islamic State in Afghanistan, Abdul Hasib, was killed in an operation on April 27 conducted jointly by Afghan and U.S. Special Forces in the eastern province of Nangarhar, U.S. and Afghan officials said on Sunday.
Street artist Banksy tackles Brexit in Dover mural
LONDON (Reuters) – British street artist Banksy has taken on Brexit with a mural of a workman chipping away one of the 12 gold stars on the flag of the European Union on a wall in Dover, the ferry port that connects England with Calais in France.
Merkel’s conservatives defeat SPD rivals in northern state vote
BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives thumped their Social Democrat rivals in a vote in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein on Sunday, in a boost to her prospects of winning a national election in September.
Obama to receive Kennedy Foundation ‘Profile in Courage’ award
BOSTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Barack Obama is expected in Boston on Sunday to receive the John F. Kennedy Foundation’s annual “Profile in Courage Award,” honoring his accomplishments during his two terms in office in the face of intense poli…
