UK Conservatives may try to stop any early election plan by May: Observer
Lawmakers from British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party are threatening to vote down any attempt she makes to call a snap national election in the face of the country’s Brexit impasse, the Observer newspaper said.
Before mosque attacks, New Zealand failed to record hate crimes for years
Weeks before a gunman killed 50 Muslims in Christchurch, a man had threatened to burn copies of the Koran outside New Zealand mosques, in what community leaders said was the latest in a long list of threatening behavior against religious minorities.
Algerian army repeats call to declare president unfit for office
Algeria’s army chief renewed a call for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to be declared unfit for office and told opponents not to seek to undermine the military, after weeks of protests demanding an end to the ailing leader’s 20-year rule.
Iran calls emergency in flood-threatened southwest province
Iran said on Saturday it faced an emergency in a southwestern province threatened by flooding and worked to evacuate dozens of villages as forecasters predicted more of the heavy rains that have killed at least 45 people this week, state media reported…
‘Yellow vest’ numbers down in 20th week of French protests
Thousands of demonstrators marched in cities around France on Saturday for a 20th weekend of “yellow vest” protests, but numbers were lower and clashes with police sporadic.
U.S. ending aid to El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras over migrants
The United States is cutting off aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, known collectively as the “Northern Triangle,” the State Department said on Saturday, a day after President Donald Trump blasted the Central American countries for sending mig…
Libya holds municipal elections in first vote for five years
Libya held rare municipal elections in nine communities on Saturday, although turnout in the country’s first voting for five years reached only about 38 percent.
Cholera cases increase to 271 in Mozambique’s cyclone-hit Beira
The number of confirmed cases of cholera in Mozambique’s cyclone-hit port city of Beira has nearly doubled to 271 in the last 48 hours, the southern African nation’s government said on Saturday.
Algerian army chief repeats call to declare president unfit for office
Algeria’s army chief repeated a proposal on Saturday to declare President Abdelaziz Bouteflika unfit for office under article 102 of the constitution and told opponents not to seek to undermine the military.
‘Wound’ of migration not solved by physical barriers, pope says
Pope Francis said on Saturday the plight of migrants was “a wound that cries out to heaven” and could never be healed by physical barriers.
