Turkish police seal off hotel to halt dissident opposition congress
ANKARA (Reuters) – Police sealed off a hotel in Ankara on Sunday, preventing dissidents in Turkey’s nationalist opposition from holding a party congress that could jeopardize President Tayyip Erdogan’s plans for more power.
Trump says Brexit wouldn’t impact potential UK-U.S. trade deal if he is president – ITV
LONDON (Reuters) – Presumptive U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Britain leaving the European Union would make no difference to a potential bilateral trade deal if he became president, according to an interview clip aired by broadc…
Fugitive British priest lived in Kosovo under false name
PEJA, Kosovo (Reuters) – A British former priest wanted for child sex abuse lived as a historian in Kosovo, was treated to cakes by his neighbors and almost died in a freak accident a year ago, local people told Reuters on Sunday.
German politicians say Merkel left EU exposed to Turkish blackmail
BERLIN (Reuters) – German politicians accused Chancellor Angela Merkel at the weekend of making Europe overly dependent on Turkey in the migrant crisis, leaving the bloc vulnerable to blackmail by President Tayyip Erdogan.
Islamic State attacks gas plant north of Baghdad, killing 11
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – An Islamic State attack on a state-run gas plant in Baghdad’s northern outskirts on Sunday killed at least 11 people, including policemen, and forced two power stations it supplied to suspend electricity production.
Azerbaijan announces military exercises ahead of Nagorno-Karabakh talks
BAKU (Reuters) – Azerbaijan on Sunday announced joint military exercises with Georgia and Turkey, plans which are likely to raise tensions with neighboring Armenia a day before talks in Vienna over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Head of U.N. Women says irking opponents comes with the battle for equality
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As the head of U.N. Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is used to people rolling their eyes when she starts to talk about women’s empowerment and the need for equality for girls globally.
Kerry meets Saudi king to discuss Syria before Vienna talks
JEDDAH (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met Saudi Arabia’s King Salman in Jeddah on Sunday to discuss the fragile truce in Syria, before broader talks with Russia, Iran and other countries in Vienna on Tuesday.
Islamic State Yemen suicide bomber kills 25 police recruits: medics
ADEN (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed at least 25 new recruits inside a police compound in the southern Yemeni city of Mukalla on Sunday in an attack claimed by Islamic State, medical and security sources said.
Iraq takes aim at media as security forces struggle to contain strife
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s Shi’ite-led authorities have shut the offices of two television channels popular with Sunni Iraqis and ordered a satirical show off air, tightening control over the media as political tensions rise in Baghdad.
