Chile election competitive despite conservative gains: poll
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – A leftist senator running for president in Chile’s November election is tied in a head-to-head match-up with the right’s frontrunner, even as his support has slipped in recent months, a poll released on Thursday showed.
Goodbye Lenin? Russian lawmakers try to tweak law to get him buried
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The embalmed corpse of Vladimir Lenin has lain in a mausoleum on Red Square since his death in 1924 but now, a century after the revolution he spearheaded, legislation designed to turf him out has been introduced into the Russian par…
Russian army says its major killed in Syria: agencies
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Defence Ministry on Friday confirmed a report that Major Sergei Bordov was killed in Syria, Russian news agencies reported.
Britain says Trump’s position shifting on Russia
TAPA, Estonia (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is shifting its stance on Russia and now sees Moscow as a competitor, Britain’s defense minister said on Thursday during a trip to the Baltic states designed to underline NATO’s new…
UK government to extend Northern Ireland talks deadline until end of June: sources
BELFAST (Reuters) – The British government has decided to extend the deadline on talks to form a power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland between Irish nationalists and pro-British unionists until after a snap UK-wide election, two sources told Reut…
Russian court bans Jehovah’s Witnesses as extremist
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Jehovah’s Witnesses were an “extremist” organization and must disband and hand over all property to the state, local media said.
Turkey’s Erdogan to meet President Trump on May 16-17
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday he will meet his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump in Washington on May 16-17, in their first meeting since Trump took office in January.
Russia says metro bomber funded by ‘international terrorists’ in Turkey: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian investigators said on Thursday that the man suspected of detonating a bomb on the St. Petersburg metro earlier this month had received money from an “international terrorist group” in Turkey, the RIA news agency reported.
German Muslims fear more radical AfD without Petry in election race
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Central Council of Muslims said on Thursday that the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) was on a path to becoming a more radical, anti-Islamic party without co-chief Frauke Petry leading it into September’s national e…
Vietnam authorities try to end hostage standoff
HANOI (Reuters) – Authorities in Vietnam’s capital promised on Thursday to review the use of land at the center of a dispute with protesters who have held 20 officials hostage for five days, local media said.
