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MADRID (Reuters) – Greeted by a group of singing young activists and the massed ranks of the world’s media, Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg arrived at the U.N. climate summit in Madrid on Friday, having taken a catamaran, train and electric car to reach the venue. The quietly spoken 16-year-old, who has become the global face

PARIS (Reuters) – A strike that crippled public transport and closed schools across France entered a second day on Friday, with trade unions saying they planned to keep going until President Emmanuel Macron backs down from a planned reform of pensions. Protesters hold a banner during a demonstration against French government’s pensions reform plans in

FILE PHOTO: Turkish drilling vessel Yavuz is pictured in the eastern Mediterranean Sea off Cyprus, August 6, 2019. REUTERS/Murad Sezer/File Photo ATHENS (Reuters) – Cyprus has petitioned the International Court of Justice at The Hague to safeguard its offshore mineral rights, its president said on Thursday, as neighbor Turkey disputes its claims. The two countries

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Fifteen countries in the Americas agreed on Tuesday to ban 29 Venezuelans, including the oil-producing country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, and his close allies, from traveling within their borders as part of diplomatic efforts to push him to step down. Colombia’s President Ivan Duque speaks next to OAS General Secretary Luis Almagro, during

FILE PHOTO: A person walks past a banner showing North Korean and U.S. flags ahead of the North Korea-U.S. summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, February 25, 2019. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea said on Tuesday the United States was trying to drag out denuclearization talks ahead of the U.S. presidential election next year and

LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Monday that any future troop drawdowns in Afghanistan were “not necessarily” linked to a deal with Taliban insurgents, suggesting some lowering of force levels may happen irrespective of the ongoing peace push. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper delivers remarks before ringing the

PARIS (Reuters) – Three emergency workers were killed overnight when their helicopter crashed while on a rescue mission in southeastern France, while two other people died in heavy flooding that has hit the region, officials said on Monday. The EC145 rescue helicopter lost radio and radar contact with controllers as it headed to Le Luc

BERLIN (Reuters) – The future of Germany’s ruling coalition looked shaky after the election of new leaders of the Social Democrats (SPD) who are demanding a shift in policies, and several senior conservatives on Sunday ruled out talks to renegotiate a governing agreement. FILE PHOTO: Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans gesture after being announced by

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s opposition criticized the government’s sentencing policies on Saturday after police said the London Bridge attacker had previously been convicted of terrorism offences but freed early from jail. Usman Khan, wearing a fake suicide vest and wielding knives, went on the rampage at a conference on criminal rehabilitation beside London Bridge on

WINDHOEK (Reuters) – Namibia’s incumbent President Hage Geingob has won the 2019 presidential election with 56.3% of the vote, the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) said on Saturday, surviving the country’s biggest corruption scandal, an economic recession and a fractured ruling party. FILE PHOTO: File photo: Namibia’s incumbent President Hage Geingob has won the 2019

LONDON (Reuters) – The 28-year-old British man who killed two people in a stabbing spree on London Bridge before police shot him dead had been released from prison after a previous conviction for terrorism offences, prompting recriminations ahead of an election. Wearing a fake suicide vest and wielding knives, Usman Khan went on the rampage

FILE PHOTO: Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick leaves after a meeting with Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson at Downing Street in London, Britain August 12, 2019. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls (Reuters) – Two members of the public were killed and three injured in Friday’s stabbing rampage by a lone knifeman near London Bridge, police confirmed. “It is

FILE PHOTO: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits Chulmleigh College as he campaigns in Devon ahead of the upcoming general election, in Chulmleigh, Britain November 28, 2019. Dan Kitwood Pool via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday he would not say how many children he had, saying that he

FILE PHOTO: Sudan’s former president Omar Hassan al-Bashir sits inside a cage at the courthouse where he is facing corruption charges, in Khartoum, Sudan September 28, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudanese transitional authorities approved a law late on Thursday to “dismantle” the regime of former president Omar al-Bashir, state TV reported. The

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson tries some cider as he visits Healey’s Cornish Cyder Farm, in Callestick, Britain, November 27, 2019. Dan Kitwood/Pool via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is on course to win a majority of 68 in parliament at the Dec. 12 election, according to a model from pollsters

NGHE AN, Vietnam (Reuters) – With tears in their eyes and white roses in their hands, friends and relatives of the 39 Vietnamese people who were found dead in the back of a British truck last month sobbed as the first bodies to be repatriated arrived in rural Vietnam on Wednesday. Ambulances from Ha Tinh