Exclusive: Yemen council head hails peace push, wants Saudis to ‘feel pain’
SANAA (Reuters) – The head of a Houthi-backed ruling council pledged readiness on Monday to resume negotiations on ending Yemen’s war but reserved the right to resist attacks by a Saudi-backed exiled government seeking to unseat it.
New Cuba tourism seen slow to take off despite U.S. flights
HAVANA/NEW YORK (Reuters) – An expected explosion in U.S. tourism to Cuba will likely take years to materialize even after U.S. airlines resume commercial flights to the Caribbean island this week for the first time since 1961, industry officials said….
Suicide bomber kills 54 in Yemen attack: health ministry
ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed at least 54 people when he drove a car bomb into a militia compound in Aden on Monday, the health ministry said, in one of the deadliest attacks claimed by Islamic State in the southern Yemeni port city.
Rockets hit Saudi border town as Yemen war flares anew
NAJRAN, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – Yemeni Houthi forces are again firing rockets at this corner of southern Saudi Arabia, ending a lull of several weeks and complicating efforts to revive talks on ending Yemen’s 18-month-old civil war.
Fight for Syria’s Aleppo exposes limits of Russian air power
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s politically-sensitive and ultimately fruitless decision to launch bombing missions on Syria from Iranian soil has exposed the limits to its air power, leaving Moscow in need of a new strategy to advance its aims.
Trade dispute, policy divisions hang over Trudeau trip to China
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits Beijing this week seeking deeper ties with China but a dispute over canola exports, government divisions over China policy and the case of a detained citizen look set to limit his gains.
Renzi to present national plan to strengthen Italy’s quake defenses
ROME (Reuters) – Prime Minister Matteo Renzi promised on Monday to present a national plan to make Italy safer against earthquakes as rescuers continued to search for bodies after last week’s quake that killed at least 290 people.
Brazil’s Rousseff appears before Senate in impeachment trial
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Suspended President Dilma Rousseff appeared before Brazil’s Senate on Monday to defend herself from charges of breaking budget laws in an impeachment trial that is expected to remove her from office this week.
France’s Sarkozy says would change constitution to ban burkinis
PARIS (Reuters) – Former French president Nicholas Sarkozy said on Monday he would change the country’s constitution to ban full-body burkini swimsuits if he is re-elected to his former role in a vote next April.
Uzbek leader in intensive care after brain hemorrhage: daughter
ALMATY (Reuters) – Uzbekistan’s president Islam Karimov, who has built his authoritarian rule on warnings of a militant Islamist threat to the Central Asian region, suffered a brain hemorrhage on Saturday and is in stable condition in intensive care, h…
