Thursday, 31 May 2018

Trump hits Canada, Mexico, EU with steel and aluminum tariffs



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Pope sends clergy sexual abuse inspectors back to Chile

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis is sending his two top sexual abuse investigators back to Chile to gather more information about the crisis that has hit the Catholic Church there, the Vatican said on Thursday.


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Basque party to vote against Spain's Rajoy in no-confidence motion, forcing him out: media

MADRID (Reuters) - The Basque Nationalist Party will vote against Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in a no-confidence motion, Cadena Ser radio and La Sexta television said on Thursday, in a move that would almost certainly force him from office.


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Trump hits Canada, Mexico, EU with steel and aluminum tariffs



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Peru striker cleared to play in World Cup despite drugs ban

His case has gripped and outraged a nation, but it looks like Paolo Guerrero will play for Peru at the 2018 World Cup after all.

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Italian church narrowly escapes a rocky end

Watch the moment a stunning rockfall consumes a church in Sondrio, Italy in a dust cloud.

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Trump says North Korea talks positive, expects Kim letter

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said talks with North Korea in New York have been very positive and he is expecting the delegation from Pyongyang to travel to Washington on Friday to deliver a letter to him from leader Kim Jong Un.


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EU should help push Iran out of Syria: opposition negotiator

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal opens the way to raising pressure on Tehran to stop its military support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and leave the country, a Syrian opposition leader said on Thursday.


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Czech caretaker PM Babis says to be appointed as PM again on June 6

PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, ruling in a caretaker capacity, will be appointed government leader again on June 6, he said on Thursday after meeting President Milos Zeman.


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Ukraine defends ruse faking journalist's murder, others criticize alarmist stunt

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine on Thursday defended the action of its state security services in faking the death of a Russian dissident journalist after international criticism, saying the bizarre ruse had been essential for protecting him.


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Romania and Lithuania knowingly hosted secret CIA jails, European court rules

VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania and Romania hosted secret CIA prisons a decade ago and their authorities were aware that detainees were held there illegally, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Thursday.


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Peru striker cleared to play in World Cup despite drugs ban

His case has gripped and outraged a nation, but it looks like Paolo Guerrero will play for Peru at the 2018 World Cup after all.

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Italian church narrowly escapes a rocky end

Watch the moment a stunning rockfall consumes a church in Sondrio, Italy in a dust cloud.

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Catholic hospital can't dismiss remarried doctor: EU court adviser

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Catholic hospital cannot dismiss an employee who divorced and remarried, as abiding by Catholic rules does not constitute an occupational requirement, an adviser to the EU's top court said on Thursday.


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Zinedine Zidane steps down as Real Madrid manager

Zinedine Zidane has announced he is stepping down as Real Madrid manager less than a week after he guided the club to a third consecutive Champions League title.

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U.S., North Korea to hold second day of nuclear talks

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and high-ranking North Korean official Kim Yong Chol enter a second day of meetings in New York on Thursday as they try to settle nuclear weapons disagreements and set the stage for an historic summit between their leaders.


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Salvini, Di Maio to meet in last-ditch bid to avert Italian election

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's anti-establishment political leaders Matteo Salvini and Luigi Di Maio were due to meet on Thursday for last-ditch talks to resurrect a coalition government and avert a new snap election, the prospect of which has rattled global markets.


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Denmark bans the wearing of face veils in public

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark has banned the wearing of face veils in public, joining France and other parts of Europe in outlawing the burqa and the niqab worn by some Muslim women.


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Argentina's Macri vetoes bill freezing utility prices

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine President Mauricio Macri on Thursday vetoed a bill passed in the early morning hours by the Senate that would freeze energy and water prices, as political tensions deepen in the economically ailing country.


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Zinedine Zidane steps down as Real Madrid manager

Zinedine Zidane has announced he is stepping down as Real Madrid manager less than a week after he guided the club to a third consecutive Champions League title.

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Russian journalist defends staged death



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Assad tells US to leave Syria

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said the United States has "lost its cards" in Syria, calling on America to leave the country in an interview with Russia Today.

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Suicidal. In despair. Transgender woman denied treatment

Jasmine Glenn's friends remember late-night phone calls from her, sobbing and saying she was ready to kill herself, knife in hand.

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Danish lawmakers ban burqas

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark on Thursday banned the wearing of face veils in public, effectively restricting the burqa and niqab worn by some Muslim women.


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