Pope signs new law to prevent child abuse at Vatican HQ and embassies
Pope Francis on Friday enacted sweeping new legislation to protect children from sexual abuse within the Vatican and other Holy See institutions in Rome, as well as by its diplomatic corps worldwide.
Out of the police cell and into the polling station: Ukraine’s election monitors
Andriy Verbetskiy is not a typical election observer. Just days before Sunday’s presidential vote in Ukraine, he was leading several hundred members of an ultra-nationalist group called the National Militia in a protest that ended in clashes with polic…
If Brexit deal fails Friday, UK has till April 12 to decide: Barnier
Britain will need to tell the European Union what it wants to do on Brexit by April 12 if parliament fails on Friday to back the EU withdrawal treaty, the bloc’s negotiator Michel Barnier said.
Factbox: Airlines set out cost after Boeing plane grounded
Tour operator TUI warned its profit would fall by at least 200 million euros ($225 million) this year after the grounding of Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft, further evidence of the financial impact of two fatal crashes involving the same type of plane.
Tunisia arrests U.N. official working on Libya arms embargo: U.N.
Tunisia has arrested a U.N. official involved in monitoring an international arms embargo on Libya although he has diplomatic immunity, a U.N. spokesman said on Friday.
Factbox: Conservative lawmakers who have switched to back UK PM May’s Brexit deal
Prime Minister Theresa May will put a stripped-down version of her twice-defeated Brexit divorce deal to a vote in parliament on Friday in an attempt to break the impasse over the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union.
Brexit at a crossroads: May puts her deal to ‘last chance’ vote in parliament
Prime Minister Theresa May puts a stripped-down version of her twice-defeated Brexit divorce deal to a vote in parliament on Friday, in an attempt to break the impasse over the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union.
Hundreds of thousands of Algerians call for Bouteflika’s resignation
Hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered in Algiers on Friday to demand the resignation of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Reuters witnesses said, days after the army chief called for his removal.
Former UK Brexit minister Raab says he will back PM May’s deal on Friday
Former Brexit minister Dominic Raab said he would vote for the government’s Withdrawal Agreement on Friday to avoid the risk of Britain having to seek a longer delay to its exit from the European Union.
Romania files charges against former chief anti-corruption prosecutor
A Romanian agency tasked with investigating magistrates has filed criminal charges against former chief anti-corruption prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi and banned her from leaving the country for two months, it said on Friday.
