Cameroon leader tells separatists to down arms after kidnapping
Cameroon’s president on Tuesday warned Anglophone separatists to lay down their arms or face the full force of the law, a day after dozens of schoolchildren were abducted in the rebel region.
UK PM May says won’t seek Brexit deal ‘at any cost’, needs more time
Britain needs more time to figure out a solution on the post-Brexit Irish border and will not accept a deal at any cost from Brussels, Prime Minister Theresa May told her cabinet on Tuesday.
Italy says will help Pakistani woman in blasphemy case leave her country
Italy said on Tuesday it will help a Pakistani Christian woman leave her country because her life is in danger following charges of blasphemy against Islam that put her on death row for eight years.
U.S. sanctions against Iran are not legitimate: Russia’s Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that U.S. sanctions on Iran were not legitimate, in Moscow’s first official comment since Washington restored sanctions on Tehran.
Wheelchair-bound 94-year old German on trial for Nazi crimes
A 94-year-old German appeared in court in a wheelchair on Tuesday accused of assisting in the murder of hundreds of people at a Nazi concentration camp during World War Two, in what is likely to be one of the last such trials.
Two bodies found in rubble of collapsed buildings in Marseille
Two bodies have been found in the wreckage of two buildings that collapsed in the French city of Marseille on Monday, the local fire brigade said, while searches continued for others feared to have been buried in the rubble.
UK PM May’s ministers need more time on Brexit backstop mechanism: spokesman
Britain needs more time to consider possible mechanisms to ensure it cannot be bound to the European Union by a backstop to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland, Prime Minister Theresa May’s spokesman said on Tuesday.
Iran says it is selling the oil it needs to, despite U.S. pressure
Iran said on Tuesday it had so far been able to sell as much oil as it needs despite U.S. pressure, but it urged European countries opposed to U.S. sanctions to do more to shield Iran, as Russia and Turkey also voiced their objections.
Regrexit? British voters would now back staying in the EU, poll shows
Britain would now vote to stay in the European Union as more young people and those who did not bother to vote in the shock 2016 referendum would now vote against Brexit, a survey of 20,000 voters showed.
Six people arrested in France over ‘loose’ plan to attack Macron
Six people have been arrested as part of a preliminary investigation into a suspected plan to attack French President Emmanuel Macron, an official close to the probe said.
