Putin rejects accusations of meddling in U.S. election
WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted on Wednesday his country was not involved in an effort to influence the U.S. presidential election even as WikiLeaks released another trove of internal documents from Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Dutch may allow assisted suicide for those who feel life is over
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Dutch government intends to draft a law that would legalize assisted suicide for people who feel they have “completed life,” but are not necessarily terminally ill, it said on Wednesday.
Clinton or Trump? Both bad, Venezuela’s president bemoans
CARACAS – Venezuela’s president on Wednesday blasted White House contenders Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, panning their weekend debate and warning either becoming the next U.S. president would be bad for Latin America.
Syrian bomb plotter commits suicide in German police custody
BERLIN (Reuters) – A Syrian migrant suspected of planning a bomb attack on a Berlin airport has committed suicide in a detention center in Leipzig, the Justice Ministry for the state of Saxony said on Wednesday.
Italy judge jails three for 20 years each over deadly 2015 migrant voyage
PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) – An Italian judge sentenced three men to 20 years each in jail on Wednesday for their role in packing hundreds of migrants into a boat in which 49 suffocated in the Mediterranean last August, a legal source said.
Militants shoot dead political party worker in Kashmir
SRINAGAR (Reuters) – Militants shot dead a political party worker from Indian-controlled Kashmir’s ruling coalition on Wednesday, police said, hours after two suspected militants were killed by armed forces in the region.
Russia’s Putin says Aleppo war crimes accusations are ‘rhetoric’
PARIS (Reuters) – French accusations that the bombing of Aleppo amounts to war crimes are rhetoric, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with French television TF1 aired on Wednesday.
France’s Hollande sees a ‘problem with Islam’, according to new book
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande told the authors of a book just published that “France has a problem with Islam”, comments that risk dividing his party before next year’s presidential election.
Obama’s top Asia diplomat says baffled by Duterte pronouncements
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top U.S. diplomat for East Asia said on Wednesday he did not know what a “panoply” of statements by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte since taking office this year would mean for Manila’s future security cooperation with W…
Putin ally tells Americans: vote Trump or face nuclear war
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Americans should vote for Donald Trump as president next month or risk being dragged into a nuclear war, according to a Russian ultra-nationalist ally of President Vladimir Putin who likes to compare himself to the U.S. Republican ca…
