French PM urged to prepare presidential bid if Hollande balks at running
PARIS (Reuters) – Socialist lawmakers are urging Prime Minister Manuel Valls to prepare a run for the French presidency in place of Francois Hollande, whose chances of being re-elected next May they see as increasingly remote.
Evoking Ottoman past, Erdogan vows to tackle Turkey’s enemies abroad
ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Smarting over exclusion from an Iraqi-led offensive against Islamic State in Mosul and Kurdish militia gains in Syria, President Tayyip Erdogan warned on Wednesday Turkey “will not wait until the blade is against our bone” …
Brazil poll shows disapproval of Temer growing
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Disapproval of President Michel Temer’s government is rising as he seeks to restore Brazil’s fiscal discipline via unpopular austerity measures, with his government now barely more popular than that of his ousted predecessor Dilma …
Protesters brace for riot police at new airport site in western France
NOTRE-DAME-DES-LANDES, France (Reuters) – Environmental activists living in cabins and tree houses on the site of a proposed new airport outside Nantes in Western France braced on Wednesday for a looming showdown with security forces after the prime mi…
‘No more Mr. Nice Guy’: EU gets tough on African migrants
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Encouraged by their success in halting a mass influx of refugees by closing Greek borders and cutting a controversial deal with Turkey, EU leaders are getting tough on African migrants too.
Egyptian high court reverses 14 death sentences against Islamists
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s highest court on Wednesday quashed death sentences imposed on 14 Islamists over an attack on a police station in protest at the military’s overthrow in 2013 of then-President Mohamed Mursi, the state news agency MENA said.
Combat rages hours before Yemen truce due to begin
SANAA (Reuters) – Saudi-led air strikes hit military bases in the Yemeni capital Sanaa and rival militias battled near the country’s border with the kingdom on Wednesday, hours before a U.N.-mediated truce was due to take effect.
Germany, Russia skeptical of breakthrough at four-way Ukraine talks
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany and Russia played down prospects of four-way talks on Wednesday achieving a breakthrough in the stalled Ukraine peace process at the first such meeting in just over a year.
Germany, Russia skeptical of breakthrough at four-way Ukraine talks
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany and Russia played down prospects of four-way talks on Wednesday achieving a breakthrough in the stalled Ukraine peace process at the first such meeting in just over a year.
Mortar shells wound woman, child in southern Turkey: Dogan
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Three mortar shells were fired into the town of Osmaniye in southern Turkey near the border of Syria on Wednesday, wounding a woman and her child who were hit by shrapnel, the Dogan news agency reported.
