Nigeria starts to count votes as final ballots cast after delays
A handful of polling stations remained open to allow more Nigerians to vote on Sunday in what is expected to be a tight presidential race between President Muhammadu Buhari and businessman Atiku Abubakar in Africa’s top oil producer.
UK independent lawmaker says would likely support PM May in confidence vote
A British lawmaker who quit Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservatives said on Sunday she would not seek to force a national election if there was a confidence vote in her former leader.
Some of PM May’s ministers undermining Britain’s Brexit negotiation: lawmaker Duncan Smith
Some of Prime Minister Theresa May’s senior ministers have undermined Britain’s Brexit negotiations by publicly warning they could vote to delay Brexit to avoid a no-deal exit, Conservative lawmaker Iain Duncan Smith said.
We are ‘our worst enemy’, bishop says as abuse conference wraps up
The Catholic Church has become its “own worst enemy” for concealing clergy sexual abuse and not listening enough to victims, a leading archbishop said on Sunday as a landmark Vatican conference was ending.
Pope, ending conference, calls for ‘all-out battle’ against abuse of minors
Pope Francis, ending a landmark Vatican conference on clergy sexual abuse of minors, called on Sunday for an “all-out battle” against a crime he called abominable and that should be “erased from the face of the earth”.
Vietnam relishes role as peace maker as it seeks to balance ties
While the leaders of North Korea and the United States debate banishing nuclear bombs from the Korean peninsula, the host of their summit this week, Vietnam, long almost synonymous with war, is relishing its role as a promoter of peace.
North Korea’s Kim on his way by train to summit with Trump in Vietnam
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made his way across China by train on Sunday, media reported, bound for a high-stakes second nuclear summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in Vietnam’s capital of Hanoi.
Italy’s government will hold together even after EU vote: PM to paper
Italy’s ruling coalition is not unraveling and will hold together even after European parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte was cited on Sunday as saying.
Harry and Meghan arrive in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains to champion girls’ education
Britain’s Prince Harry and his pregnant wife Meghan arrived in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains on Sunday where they will show their support for rural girls’ education.
UK PM May’s Conservative Party chairman confident of Brexit deal before March 29
The chairman of Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party said on Sunday he believed Britain could get a Brexit deal approved by parliament in time for its March 29 exit date.
