Iraqi novelist gunned down in Kerbala
A motorcycle gunman shot dead an Iraqi novelist close to his house in the holy Shi’ite Muslim city of Kerbala on Saturday, police and witnesses said.
Pope says following Yemen crisis with ‘great worry’
Pope Francis, who will travel to the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, said he is following the humanitarian crisis in Yemen with great worry and urged all sides to respect international agreements and ensure food reaches suffering Yemenis.
Existing technology can be used to avoid hard border in Ireland: UK minister
It is possible to use existing technology to solve the issue of post-Brexit arrangements for the border between the United Kingdom and Ireland, Britain’s interior minister Sajid Javid said on Sunday.
Yemen’s warring parties meet on ship to discuss stalled troop withdrawal
Representatives from both sides in the Yemen conflict met on a ship on the Red Sea on Sunday in a U.N.-led push to implement a stalled troop withdrawal from Yemen’s main port of Hodeidah as agreed at December peace talks, a U.N. official told Reuters.
Inside a raid in Maduro’s crackdown on critics in Venezuela slums
After Venezuelan police officers clad in black military uniforms and masks stopped 27-year-old Yohendry Fernandez at gunpoint in the Caracas slum of Jose Felix Ribas, they asked him if he had a criminal record. He replied yes.
Venezuelan special police unit blamed for abuses, killings
Violence perpetrated by Venezuela’s state security forces has been contributing more and more to the country’s homicide rate, one of the highest in the world.
Netanyahu’s Likud uses Trump photo in Israeli election billboard
A giant billboard of a smiling Donald Trump shaking hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu loomed over a main entrance to Tel Aviv on Sunday, part of the Israeli leader’s re-election campaign.
UK trade minister says EU ‘irresponsible’ to refuse to reopen Brexit deal
It would be irresponsible for the European Union to refuse to reopen negotiations over Britain’s exit deal, British trade minister Liam Fox said in an interview aired on Sunday.
UK trade minister Fox says EU ‘irresponsible’ to refuse to reopen Brexit deal
It would be irresponsible for the European Union to refuse to reopen negotiations over Britain’s exit deal, British trade minister Liam Fox said in an interview aired on Sunday.
Seven passengers killed when train derails in eastern India
Seven passengers were killed and several others injured when a Delhi-bound train derailed in India’s eastern state of Bihar on Sunday, railways officials said.
