U.S., India, discuss ‘urgency’ of Pakistan actions on terrorism: State
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told his Indian counterpart, Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale, on Monday that the United States stands with India in fighting terrorism, the State Department said, after a suicide attack on an Indian paramilitary conv…
Iran’s Rouhani signs trade pacts in Iraq to help offset US sanctions
Iraq and Iran signed several preliminary trade deals on Monday, Iraqi officials said, as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani began his first visit seeking to bolster Tehran’s influence and expand commercial ties to help offset renewed U.S. sanctions.
Deadly plague breaks out on Uganda-Congo border, WHO says
A deadly form of plague has broken out on Uganda’s border with Democratic Republic of Congo and several people are thought to have died of the disease, the World Health Organization said on Monday.
Hungary’s Orban faces crunch talks in anti-EU dispute
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban was due to hold crunch talks on Tuesday with the head of the European Parliament’s main conservative group which has threatened to expel his party over his anti-EU and anti-immigrant election campaigning.
Ethiopian plane smoked and shuddered before deadly plunge
The Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed killing 157 people was making a strange rattling noise and trailed smoke and debris as it swerved above a field of panicked cows before hitting earth, according to witnesses.
UK’s May to meet EU’s Juncker for Brexit talks on Monday: source
British Prime Minister Theresa May is on her way to a meeting with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in Strasbourg later on Monday to discuss her hopes for a revised Brexit deal, a UK government official said.
May has ‘some kind of’ Brexit deal, UK eurosceptic lawmakers think: BBC reporter
Senior pro-Brexit members of Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party believe she has “some kind of” Brexit deal to put to parliament on Tuesday, the BBC’s political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, said.
Husband of Iranian human rights lawyer says she is sentenced to 38 years, 148 lashes
Nasrin Sotoudeh, an internationally renowned human rights lawyer jailed in Iran, was handed a new sentence on Monday which her husband said was 38 years in prison and 148 lashes.
U.S. citizen Michael White sentenced in Iranian court: agencies
A U.S. citizen held in Iran has been sentenced for an unspecified crime, Iranian news agencies reported on Monday, in a case likely to worsen already terrible relations with the United States.
In Paris pub, British punters drown sorrows with Brexit beer
If Prime Minister Theresa May or any other Briton needs some Dutch courage to see them through the fraught final countdown to Britain’s departure from the European Union they need look no further than a Paris pub and its popular “Brexit” beer.
