France’s Fillon appeals to voters, retains party backing
PARIS (Reuters) – Conservative French presidential candidate Francois Fillon appealed to voters on Wednesday via a newspaper column to back his campaign, trying to claw back support after losing his place as frontrunner over accusations of fake jobs fo…
Support for Scottish independence rises after PM May goes for ‘clean break Brexit’
EDINBURGH/LONDON (Reuters) – Support for Scottish independence has risen since British Prime Minister Theresa May came out last month in favor of Britain making a clean break with the European Union when it leaves the bloc, an opinion poll showed on We…
Trump presidency heralds new era of closer ties with Egypt
CAIRO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Friendly phone calls, an invite to the White House, a focus on Islamic militancy and what Donald Trump called “chemistry” have set the tone for a new era of warmer U.S.-Egyptian ties that could herald more military and poli…
Exclusive: More than 1,000 feared killed in Myanmar army crackdown on Rohingya – U.N. officials
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) – More than 1,000 Rohingya Muslims may have been killed in a Myanmar army crackdown, according to two senior United Nations officials dealing with refugees fleeing the violence, suggesting the death toll has been a far…
Italy to ramp up migrant deportations: minister
ROME (Reuters) – Italy will boost deportations of migrants who do not have a right to stay in the country and open new detention centers for those being sent home, Interior Minister Marco Minniti said on Wednesday.
Erdogan, Trump agree joint action against Islamic State in Syria: Turkish sources
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed in an overnight phone call on joint action against Islamic State in the Syrian towns of Raqqa and al-Bab, both held by the militants, Turkish presidency sources …
Don’t build walls, Pope Francis says
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis said on Wednesday that society should not create “walls but bridges” to encourage good relations among people, adding it was wrong to be spiteful and say “I’ll make you pay for that”.
Russia opposition leader Navalny says Kremlin sabotaging his presidential bid
KIROV/MOSCOW, Russia (Reuters) – Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny accused the Kremlin of trying to block him from running in next year’s presidential election after a court on Wednesday found him guilty of embezzlement.
Cyber expert’s arrest silences Russian contacts of some Western crime fighters
SAN FRANCISCO/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian cyber-security experts have scaled back cooperation with Western contacts after one of their number was arrested in Moscow on treason charges, making it harder to fight global online crime, U.S. law-enforcement …
Rights groups challenge Israel’s new settlements law in court
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Rights groups petitioned Israel’s Supreme Court on Wednesday to annul a heavily criticized law that retroactively legalized some 4,000 settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.
