Despite tough talk, Turkey caught between U.S. and Russia in Syria
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish calls for tough action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after U.S. missile strikes on one of his airbases may overestimate Washington’s appetite for deeper involvement in Syria’s war and threaten Ankara’s fragile ra…
About 20 wedding guests dead as boat sinks in southwestern Myanmar
YANGON (Reuters) – Some 20 people died and about a dozen were missing on Friday after a wooden boat carrying about 60 wedding guests hit a cargo ship and sank in southwestern Myanmar, local officials said, in the third big marine accident in the countr…
At U.S.-China summit, Trump presses Xi on trade, North Korea; progress cited
PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) – President Donald Trump pressed Chinese President Xi Jinping to do more to curb North Korea’s nuclear program and help reduce the gaping U.S. trade deficit with Beijing in talks on Friday, even as he toned down the strident …
Venezuela opposition leader Capriles says barred from political office
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader and two-time presidential candidate Henrique Capriles said on Friday he has been banned from holding political office for 15 years, amid what critics say is a crackdown on dissent by the leftist governme…
French presidential campaign tightening in final weeks, polls show
PARIS, (Reuters) – France’s presidential race is tightening in its final weeks with a far-left and a conservative candidate narrowing the gap on long-time frontrunners Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, two polls showed on Friday.
U.N. says Syria action must abide by international law
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Immediate action is needed to protect the Syrian people but it should be “rooted in the principles of the United Nations and international law,” U.N. political affairs chief Jeffrey Feltman said on Friday.
Turkey’s Erdogan courts nationalists, Kurds alike with hard line on PKK
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) – In rallies from the Kurdish southeast to the northern Black Sea coast, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has seemed to attempt the impossible: win over both nationalists and Kurds with threats to make spring a “black winte…
Merkel defends Germany’s deportations of rejected Afghan asylum seekers
BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday defended Germany’s stepped up deportations of rejected Afghan asylum seekers, saying other European countries were doing the same in response to a large influx of migrants since summer 2015.
U.N. Security Council to meet Friday on U.S. strikes in Syria: diplomats
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council will meet at 1130 EDT (1530 GMT) on Friday to discuss Thursday’s U.S. cruise missile strikes on Syria, diplomats said.
Four killed by truck driven into crowd in Swedish capital
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – A truck ploughed into a crowd on a shopping street and crashed into a department store in central Stockholm on Friday, killing four people and wounding 15 in what the prime minister said appeared to be a terrorist attack.
