UK foreign minister condemns Sudan sit-in dispersal
The United Kingdom’s foreign minister, Jeremy Hunt, condemned on Monday the violent dispersal of a sit-in protest outside the Sudanese Defense Ministry in Khartoum.
Canadian inquiry calls deaths of indigenous women ‘genocide’
The deaths in Canada of more than a thousand aboriginal women and girls in recent decades was a national genocide, a government inquiry into murdered and missing indigenous women concluded in a report on Monday.
Swedish court rejects Assange detention request over rape allegation
A Swedish court on Monday rejected a request from prosecutors for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be detained in absentia over a 2010 rape allegation.
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SPD will decide approach to coalition in late June: caretaker leader
Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) will discuss at a leadership meeting at the end of June how to proceed regarding their governing coalition with conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel, one of the party’s three caretaker leaders said.
Sudanese forces storm protest camp, 13 people dead: medics
Security forces stormed a protest camp in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Monday and at least 13 people were reported killed in the worst violence since the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir in April.
As meetings begin and U.S. tariffs loom, Mexico hopes for migration deal
Mexico can reach an agreement with the United States to resolve a dispute over migration that prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to threaten punitive tariffs, Mexican officials said on Monday as high-level talks were set to begin in Washington.
Russia rebuffs Ukraine’s case over rebel support at U.N. court
Russia told a hearing at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday that the court lacks jurisdiction in a case filed by Ukraine against Moscow over its alleged support of pro-Russian separatists in the Crimea and eastern Ukraine.
Iraq sentences two more Frenchmen to death for IS membership
An Iraqi court sentenced two Frenchmen to death on Monday for membership of Islamic State, a prosecutor told Reuters, bringing the total number of French citizens on death row in Iraq to 11.
Pompeo says U.S. trying to level the playing field with China
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday that the United States is seeking to “level the playing field” with China after decades of unfair trade practices, but his Dutch counterpart said tariffs would hurt international trade.
