Swiss government baulks at signing EU treaty: sources
Opposition from across the political spectrum will make it all but impossible for the Swiss government to sign a draft treaty with the European Union next month, sources close to the matter told Reuters.
UK’s May discussed Brexit legislation with two ministers: spokesman
British Prime Minister Theresa May held separate meetings with her foreign and interior ministers on Thursday to discuss legislation to enact her Brexit deal, May’s spokesman said.
Factbox: Who’s who in the great EU jobs hunt
This weekend’s European Parliament election will usher in a major reshuffle of top jobs in EU institutions.
Factbox: Europe votes – Timeline to handover
EU citizens will elect a new European Parliament this week, the first step in a process that will change the leadership of major European Union institutions later this year.
Iran tells German envoy its patience is over: Fars
Iran told a German envoy seeking to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal that its patience was over and urged the treaty’s remaining signatories to fulfill their commitments after the United States pulled out, the Fars news agency reported on Thursday.
YouTuber’s rant dents German conservatives’ campaign
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives have been thrown off balance days before Germans vote in European Parliament elections by a 26-year-old’s hour-long YouTube polemic, which has been watched over 5 million times in just five days.
Exodus grows from northwest Syria in intensified fighting
Thousands more people have fled violence in northwest Syria, the United Nations and a medical agency said on Thursday, as an army assault on the last big rebel enclave met a counter-attack.
U.N. agency aiding Palestinians rejects U.S. bid to strip it of mandate
The head of the United Nations agency that has supported Palestinian refugees for seven decades hit back on Thursday at a U.S. proposal to have host countries take over the services it provides across the Middle East.
‘American Taliban’ Lindh released from U.S. prison -Washington Post
John Walker Lindh, the American captured in Afghanistan in 2001 fighting for the Taliban, was released early from federal prison on Thursday, the Washington Post reported, citing Lindh’s lawyer.
Belarus reburies over 1,200 Jews unearthed in Nazi-era mass grave
Belarus on Wednesday buried more than 1,200 Jewish Holocaust victims whose remains were unearthed this year after builders stumbled across a Nazi-era mass grave beneath a construction site in a residential area.
