UK in talks about ways to up pressure on backers of Syrian government: PM May’s spokesman
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is in discussions with international partners on how it can put more pressure on the Syrian government and its supporters, including Russia, Prime Minister Theresa May’s spokesman said on Monday.
Berlusconi ‘saves’ Easter lambs, angering Italy’s meat lobby
ROME (Reuters) – Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has infuriated Italy’s meat industry by joining a vegetarian campaign and “adopting” five lambs that would have been butchered for Easter.
Rage at abandonment by the state as Egypt’s Christians dig graves after bombing
TANTA, Egypt (Reuters) – Egyptian Christians wept with rage on Monday as they recovered the bodies of loved ones killed in twin church bombings, furious at a state they believe will no longer protect them from neighbors bent on their murder.
France’s Le Pen, evoking wartime Jewish arrests, re-opens old wounds
PARIS (Reuters) – Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen drew protests from her political rivals and the Israeli government on Monday by denying the French state’s responsibility for a mass arrest of Jews in Paris during World War Two.
Hungry Somalis weigh a daughter’s freedom against her siblings’ lives
DOLLOW, Somalia (Reuters) – As the village wells dried up and her livestock died in the scorched scrubland of southern Somalia, Abdir Hussein had one last chance to save her family from starvation: the beauty of her 14-year-old daughter, Zeinab.
Freight train to leave Britain on long haul for China
STANFORD-LE-HOPE, England (Reuters) – The first freight train to run from Britain to China was due to depart on Monday, carrying vitamins, baby products and other goods as Britain seeks to burnish its global trading credentials for when it leaves the E…
Ex-policeman flees Philippines after testifying to Duterte ‘death squad’ link
MANILA (Reuters) – A retired police officer who testified to killing hundreds of people while working for a “death squad” under Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte when he was a city mayor has left the country in fear of his life, he said.
Car blast kills government worker in Somali capital
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A government official was killed by a bomb planted in his car in Somalia’s capital on Monday, officials said.
Citigroup sees Macron winning French vote, changing its earlier Fillon forecast
PARIS (Reuters) – U.S. investment bank Citigroup said on Monday it had changed its baseline, or most probable, scenario for the French presidential election to a win for centrist Emmanuel Macron, compared to its earlier forecast of a victory for conser…
Philippine court upholds guilty verdict on U.S. Marine in transgender woman’s killing
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippine Court of Appeals has upheld a guilty verdict on a U.S. Marine for killing a transgender woman nearly three years ago, a case that stirred debate over the U.S. military presence in its former colony.
