At least 35 killed in drug violence across Mexico: officials
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – At least 35 people were killed over the weekend in Mexico, according to local officials, amid a widespread surge in drug gang violence that has driven murders to a level not seen since 2011.
Germany approving far fewer Afghan asylum-seekers: newspaper
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany approved just under 48 percent of asylum applications from Afghan migrants in the first two months of 2017, down from close to 78 percent in 2015, the Passauer Neue Presse German newspaper reported on Sunday.
Afghan Taliban’s brazen attack eclipses Trump’s ‘mother of all bombs’
KABUL (Reuters) – Eight days after the U.S. military dropped its largest ever conventional bomb on suspected Islamic State fighters in eastern Afghanistan, Taliban militants breached an army base in the north of the country and killed scores of local s…
Conservatives hold 22-point lead ahead of UK election: ICM poll
(Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservatives have a 22 point lead over Labour, an ICM poll said on Sunday ahead of a general election on June 8.
Liberal Maldives blogger stabbed to death
(Reuters) – A prominent Maldivian blogger, who was critical of Islamist extremism and government corruption, was stabbed to death on Sunday, police said, and the main opposition party demanded an international probe into the killing.
Congo rights group urges attorney general to investigate costly passports
DAKAR (Reuters) – A Congolese rights group has written to the attorney general to demand a criminal investigation into a Reuters report that most of the money from fees for printing new passports goes overseas.
Italy prosecutor says rescue boats in contact with people smugglers
ROME (Reuters) – An Italian prosecutor has evidence of phone calls between Libyan people smugglers and aid groups operating rescue boats, he told newspaper La Stampa, amid growing criticism of non-governmental groups saving refugees off the Libyan coas…
Russia hacked Danish defense for two years, minister tells newspaper
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Russia has hacked the Danish defense and gained access to employees’ emails in 2015 and 2016, NATO member Denmark’s defense minister told newspaper Berlingske on Sunday.
Gunmen wound celebrated conservationist Gallmann in Kenya
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Gunmen wounded Italian-born conservationist Kuki Gallmann at her conservation park on Sunday in the latest of a string of attacks during land invasions in drought-stricken northern Kenya, which residents say are intensifying as Augu…
Big catch-up for Merkel’s party in most populous German state: poll
BERLIN (Reuters) – Support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives has risen to its highest level in two years in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, albeit on a par with its main opposition, a poll showed on Sunday.
