Take our outstretched hand, Germany’s Weber urges UK lawmakers
German conservative Manfred Weber, who is running to take over the European Union’s top job this year, urged British lawmakers on Monday to approve Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal, which he said could not be renegotiated.
Leftist militant returns to Italy to serve life sentence for murders
Former leftist guerrilla Cesare Battisti, facing a life sentence in Italy for murder, landed in Rome on Monday on a special flight from Bolivia, ending almost four decades on the run.
Take a second look, Britain’s May urges lawmakers before Brexit vote
British Prime Minister Theresa May urged lawmakers on Monday to take a “second look” at her deal to leave the European Union, a last-ditch effort to win over a parliament that looks set to reject the agreement.
Chinese court sentences Canadian to death; Trudeau blasts move
A Chinese court on Monday sentenced a Canadian man to be executed for drug smuggling, prompting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to accuse China of using the death penalty arbitrarily.
Car bomb blast near high-security compound in Kabul kills four, dozens wounded
At least four people were killed and more than 50 wounded when a bomb-laden car blew up near a high-security compound in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, officials said.
Ethiopia protesters block main highway to the sea
Protesters in Ethiopia’s northeastern Afar region have blocked the landlocked country’s main route to the sea to demonstrate against surging ethnic violence, organizers said on Monday.
Bangladesh garment workers stage protests, say pay rise insufficient
Several thousand garment workers took to the streets in Bangladesh on Monday, rejecting a pay hike in the crucial export industry as insufficient, police and union leaders said.
Northwestern Congo ethnic violence killed at least 400 in December: local activists
Ethnic violence in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo killed at least 400 people over two days in December, a local priest and a civil society activist said on Monday, a death toll three times higher than earlier estimates.
Mass protests in Zimbabwe after fuel prices more than doubled
Protesters barricaded roads and burned tIres in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare on Monday, two days after President Emmerson Mnangagwa raised the price of fuel by 150 percent in response to the worst economic crisis in a decade.
Israelis to scour Danube for Holocaust remains with Hungary’s help
An Israeli recovery team will search Hungary’s Danube river for remains of Holocaust victims, with Hungarian permission and assistance, so they can be buried in accordance with Jewish rite, a visiting Israeli official said on Monday.
