Philippine police van drives at protesters to break up anti-U.S. demonstration
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine police used tear gas to disperse about 1,000 anti-U.S. protesters outside the U.S. Embassy in Manila on Wednesday, as television news footage showed a patrol van, which had come under attack, driving at demonstrators.
Focus on Britain’s post-Brexit future, PM May to tell EU leaders
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May will tell European Union leaders on Thursday it is time to start talking about future EU ties with Britain and put paid to suggestions her government might reconsider Brexit.
Mexican drug cartel leader pleads guilty to U.S. charge
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The suspected head of a Mexican drug cartel that U.S. authorities said was responsible for distributing tons of cocaine into the Unit-ed States and Europe before being arrested in 2014 pleaded guilty on Wednesday.
Netanyahu tells settlers of worries of possible U.S. action at U.N.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday expressed concern that U.S. President Barack Obama, during the final days of his term in office, might take diplomatic steps that could harm the fate of Jewish settlements in …
Ex-leader of Brazil’s lower house arrested on graft charges: police
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Eduardo Cunha, the former head of Brazil’s lower house of Congress who led the impeachment drive against former President Dilma Rousseff, was arrested on Wednesday on corruption charges.
Abandoned villages on road to Mosul rigged with tunnels and bombs
SHEIKH AMIR, Iraq (Reuters) – A deep tunnel, booby-trapped with an improvised explosive device, burrows under houses at the entrance to the village. Nearby, an anti-personnel mine lies half buried in a dirt road.
Abandoned villages on road to Mosul rigged with tunnels and bombs
SHEIKH AMIR, Iraq (Reuters) – A deep tunnel, booby-trapped with an improvised explosive device, burrows under houses at the entrance to the village. Nearby, an anti-personnel mine lies half buried in a dirt road.
Croatia parliament approves new conservative-led cabinet
ZAGREB (Reuters) – The Croatian parliament approved on Wednesday a new government led by the conservative HDZ party leader Andrej Plenkovic whose main task will be to boost growth and sort out fragile public finances in one of the weakest European Unio…
Finnish government drops Guggenheim museum plans: PM
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland’s center-right government has dropped plans to help build a Guggenheim museum in Helsinki with state funding, Prime Minister Juha Sipila said on Wednesday.
Haitians vulnerable on Mexico-U.S. border as migrant crisis escalates
MEXICALI, Mexico (Reuters) – Camped in migrant centers, broken-down rooms of a dingy, semi-derelict hotel and on church floors, thousands of Haitians desperate to enter the United States are in limbo and exposed to crime in dangerous border neighborhoo…
