Turkey blames Kurdish militants for Istanbul car bombing
ANKARA/MIDYAT, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s office blamed Kurdish militants for a car bombing that killed 11 people in central Istanbul, while a second bomb on Wednesday killed five people in the largely Kurdish southeast.
French finance minister tells workers: No sense in strikes as growth picks up
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s Finance Minister, Michel Sapin, urged workers to end a wave of nationwide strikes, saying on Thursday the walkouts risked undermining signs of stronger growth and falling unemployment.
Blair and Major to warn Brexit threatens unity of United Kingdom: BBC
BELFAST (Reuters) – Tony Blair and John Major will say on Thursday that a vote to leave the European Union on June 23 would jeopardize the unity of the United Kingdom by undermining the peace in Northern Ireland and stoking calls for Scottish independe…
Berlusconi’s party denies press reports he may need heart surgery
ROME (Reuters) – Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is continuing to undergo tests in hospital but is not expected to have heart surgery, a spokeswoman for his Forza Italia party said on Thursday, denying press reports he would need an operation.
Venezuela’s top court bans media’s publishing videos of lynchings
CARACAS (Reuters) – – Venezuela’s Supreme Court on Wednesday banned media from publishing videos of lynchings, saying they create “anxiety and uncertainty” in a country ravaged by violent crime and an economic crisis.
British paedophile exploited stigma of abuse in vulnerable communities
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – In the shadows of Kuala Lumpur’s gleaming high-rises, a non-governmental organization has started holding workshops on sexual abuse for children of a poor Indian community, once a haunt of convicted British paedophile Richard H…
Betting odds indicate 76 percent probability of UK voting to stay in EU-Betfair
LONDON (Reuters) – The implied probability of a British vote to stay in the European Union on June 23 rose to 75.8 percent on Thursday, according to betting odds supplied by Betfair.
U.S. sees no major Islamic State links to Boko Haram, despite claims
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – After Boko Haram killed more than two dozen soldiers in Niger last week, it claimed the attack in the name of Islamic State-West Africa Province — a title meant to tell the world it is an arm of the Syria-based extremist group.
North Korea to convene assembly late June after rare party congress
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea said on Thursday that it will convene a session of its parliament in late June, following a rare congress of the country’s ruling Workers’ Party in May that cemented young leader Kim Jong Un’s control of the isolated state…
Japan protests after Chinese warship sails near disputed East China Sea islands
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan summoned the Chinese ambassador early on Thursday to express concern after a Chinese navy ship sailed close to what Japan considers its territorial waters in the East China Sea for the first time, increasing tensions over the di…
