Egypt’s president meets Libyan commander Haftar in Cairo
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday met in Cairo with Khalifa Haftar, the commander of eastern-based Libyan forces, who is under international pressure to halt an advance on the capital Tripoli.
Salisbury, scene of Novichok poison drama, named Britain’s best place to live
The English cathedral city of Salisbury, the location of a deadly nerve agent poisoning blamed on Russia, was named as Britain’s best place to live by the Sunday Times newspaper.
Squalid conditions fuel frustration in South African township ahead of election
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Eastern Libyan warplane crashes in southern Tripoli: military sources
An eastern Libyan warplane crashed on Sunday in southern Tripoli, military sources said.
German state-owned TV accuses Venezuela of blocking its Spanish channel
Germany’s state-funded public broadcaster Deutsche Welle accused Venezuela’s broadcast authority on Sunday of having blocked its Spanish-language channel from cable networks in the country.
Minority Hazaras in Pakistan protest for third day after Quetta attack
Minority Shi’ite Hazaras blocked traffic in a sit-in protest for a third day in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta on Sunday after a suicide bomb killed 19 people in an outdoor market, many of them ethnic Hazaras.
Victims’ remains kept by Nazi doctor to be buried in Berlin: Bild
Over 300 tissue samples from people killed by the Nazi regime and kept by a Berlin doctor will be laid to rest in a ceremony in Berlin on May 13, 74 years after the end of World War Two, Bild am Sonntag newspaper reported on Sunday.
Spain’s Sanchez hardens position on Catalonia ahead of election
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who faces a national election in two weeks’ time, has said he will act with “strength and proportion” against any attempt by Catalan separatists to repeat their 2017 independence bid.
Brexit cannot define us, says UK PM’s deputy as ratings dip
Britain’s ruling Conservative Party cannot let itself be defined solely by Brexit, Prime Minister Theresa May’s de facto deputy said on Sunday, as polling showed failure to leave the European Union on schedule has badly damaged its support.
Egypt president meets Libyan commander Haftar in Cairo
The president of Egypt met on Sunday in Cairo with the commander of eastern Libyan forces who is under international pressure to halt an advance on the capital Tripoli.
