France to open the way for London-style urban tolls: source
France plans to make it easier for Paris and other big cities to introduce London-style urban vehicle tolls in a bid to reduce pollution and congestion, a government source told Reuters on Friday.
Russia backs Bosnia’s integrity amid Serb calls for secession
Russia supports the peace accords that ended Bosnia’s war in the 1990s and the country’s territorial integrity, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday amid a Bosnian Serb leader’s calls for secession of a Serb-run region from Bosnia.
Macron’s office says ‘no comment’ when asked about May’s Brexit speech
French President Emmanuel Macron’s office said it had no comment to make about British Prime Minister Theresa May’s speech on Friday about the state of Brexit negotiations, following a fraught summit in Austria.
May tells EU: Come up with new proposals to break Brexit impasse
British Prime Minister Theresa May told the European Union on Friday that it should come up with an alternative to her Brexit proposals and warned she would never accept a break-up of the United Kingdom.
Sterling tumbles after PM May tells EU to come up with new Brexit proposals
The British pound fell almost 1.5 percent on Friday, hurt by Prime Minister Theresa May warning European Union leaders to come up with new alternatives to her Brexit proposals if they are to break a deadlock in the talks.
PM May’s statement on Brexit talks after EU rejects her proposals
Following is British Prime Minister Theresa May’s statement on Brexit talks.
Travelers wait as fighting shuts runways in Libya
The queue snakes out of the departures hall and deep into the carpark at Libya’s small Misrata airport – the main remaining gateway in and out of the country since fighting shut down the last runways in the capital Tripoli.
Alcohol abuse kills 3 million a year, most of them men: WHO
More than 3 million people died in 2016 due to drinking too much alcohol, meaning one in 20 deaths worldwide was linked to harmful drinking, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
Death toll reaches 136 in Tanzania ferry disaster, scores feared missing
At least 136 bodies have been retrieved after a ferry sank on Lake Victoria, Tanzania’s top police official Simon Sirro said on Friday, and scores more were still feared missing as rescuers searched for survivors on the morning after the disaster.
Pope to preach solidarity on Baltics visit in shadow of hostile Russia
Pope Francis will carry a message of solidarity to the Baltic nations on a visit starting on Saturday, nearly 30 years after they broke away from the Soviet Union and as they look warily toward a newly aggressive Russia.
