Former East German dictator Honecker’s widow dies in Chile: local media
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Margot Honecker, the widow of the former East German leader Erich Honecker, died on Friday in Chile, where she had been residing for over two decades, local television station TVN and CNN Chile said.
Three Red Cross staff kidnapped in Congo are free: ICRC
DAKAR (Reuters) – Three Red Cross staff members kidnapped three days ago in eastern Congo in an attack blamed by a rights group on Rwandan rebels, have been released, the Geneva-based organization said on Friday.
Turkish soldiers kill five people trying to enter Syria to join Islamic State
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish soldiers have killed five people in the southeastern Turkish province of Gaziantep as they were trying to cross into Syria to join Islamic State and have detained five others, the provincial governor’s office said on Friday…
Brazil Senate committee votes for Rousseff to stand trial
BRASILIA (Reuters) – A Senate committee recommended on Friday that Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff be put on trial by the full chamber for breaking budget laws, moving a step closer to the likely suspension of the leftist leader from office next week…
Panama Papers source breaks silence, denies being a spy: Sueddeutsche Zeitung
BERLIN (Reuters) – Sueddeutsche Zeitung said on Friday that the source of millions of documents leaked to the German newspaper from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca had sent them a manifesto, saying his motivation was the “scale of injustices” the p…
Small U.S. military team in Yemen to aid UAE push on al Qaeda
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military said on Friday it had deployed a very small number of forces to Yemen to offer intelligence support for the United Arab Emirate’s so far successful push on the ground against al Qaeda’s most dangerous affiliate….
Egypt gives Italy phone records of union chief: source
ROME (Reuters) – Egypt has handed over the mobile phone records of the head of a street vendors union to Italian investigators who are looking into the killing in Cairo of student Giulio Regeni, a legal source said on Friday.
China takes first step in $1 billion pledge to U.N. to fund peace, development
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – China signed an agreement with the United Nations on Friday to pay $20 million annually for a decade to help fund peace, security and development activities, taking the first step in fulfilling a $1 billion pledge made by Pre…
Russia says U.S.-Georgian military exercises could destabilize Caucasus
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday that military exercises by the United States and neighboring Georgia later this month were a provocative step that could destabilize the Caucasus region.
EU Referendum Scorecard: Trump backs Brexit, Japan says don’t take the plunge
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s political class took a week off from the referendum to focus on the mayoral race in London and local elections up and down the country, leaving the Brexit debate to Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
