Three thousand migrants rescued in the Mediterranean: coast guard
MILAN (Reuters) – Around 3,000 migrants were rescued in the Mediterranean on Saturday as they tried to reach Europe, Italy’s coast guard said in a statement.
UK Conservatives extend lead by 6 points ahead of June 8 election: YouGov poll
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party extended its lead by six percentage points over the main opposition Labour Party in the past week ahead of a June 8 national election, according to a YouGov opinion poll for the…
UK Conservatives extend lead in ORB poll ahead of national election
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party has extended its lead slightly over the main opposition Labour party in the past week, according to an ORB opinion poll on Saturday.
Nigeria exchanges 82 Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram for prisoners
ABUJA/MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Boko Haram militants have released 82 schoolgirls out of a group of more than 200 whom they kidnapped from the northeastern town of Chibok three years ago in exchange for prisoners, the presidency said on Saturday.
Roses in hand, Venezuelan women protesters face security forces
CARACAS (Reuters) – Dressed in white and chanting “Liberty!”, tens of thousands of women opposed to Venezuela’s socialist President Nicolas Maduro marched on Saturday, proffering roses to security forces who blocked their way.
‘Mother’ should not be used to describe a bomb, Pope says
MILAN (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Saturday criticized the naming of the U.S. military’s biggest non-nuclear explosive as “the Mother of All Bombs”, saying the word “mother” should not be used in reference to a deadly weapon.
UK Conservative lead stays strong ahead of June election: Opinium poll
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minster Theresa May’s Conservative Party is still a strong 16 points ahead of the main opposition Labour Party ahead of a national election on June 8, according to a poll by Opinium on Saturday.
Flooding forces Mosul residents to flee war in rickety boats
MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – The Iraqi man laid the body of his wife, wrapped in a black shroud, gently on the bow of a small wooden boat and held onto it as a second man rowed slowly to pick up the man’s three children standing a few meters away.
Several thousand Poles protest against right-wing ruling party
WARSAW (Reuters) – Several thousand people demonstrated in Warsaw on Saturday against Poland’s conservative, eurosceptic ruling party in an attempt by the opposition to build momentum ahead of next year’s municipal elections.
Egypt kills two suspected bomb-makers in shoot-out
CAIRO (Reuters) – Two armed men suspected of making bombs were killed in a shoot-out with Egyptian security forces in an area north of Cairo, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.
