By Juliette Jabkhiro AVIGNON, France (Reuters) – France may introduce changes to its rape law to include consent for the first time, after a mass rape trial shook the country, challenging the limits of existing legislation and prompting some leading politicians to call for change. Dominique Pelicot has admitted to drugging his wife and recruiting …
Pelicot mass rape trial in France may spur changes to the law Read More »
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey has hit outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq and northern Syria after a deadly attack on an aviation site in Ankara, the Defence Ministry said on Wednesday. Perpetrators of the attack in Ankara were highly likely PKK members, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said earlier. (Reporting by Huseyin Hayatsever; …
Turkey hits PKK targets in northern Iraq, Syria after deadly attack in Ankara Read More »
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, one of Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin’s closest allies, said in an interview broadcast on Wednesday that deploying any foreign forces in the Ukraine conflict would inevitably lead to an escalation. The comments came as the U.S. said for the first time that it had seen evidence of North …
Belarusian president says foreign troops would escalate Ukraine conflict Read More »
PARIS (Reuters) – France is hoping that a meeting on Thursday of some 70 delegations to support Lebanon will raise about 500 million euros ($540 million) in humanitarian aid, according to a foreign ministry framework document for the conference. “This conference aims to lead to concrete initiatives for the country, notably on the humanitarian side …
France targets 500 million euros for Lebanon at Paris meeting, ministry says Read More »
By Huseyin Hayatsever, Jonathan Spicer ANKARA (Reuters) -Here are some of the issues underpinning ties between Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin, who met on Wednesday in Russia on the sidelines of the summit of the BRICS grouping which NATO-member Turkey has voiced interest in joining: WARY RESPECT Relations between the long-serving Turkish and Russian presidents …
Explainer-How close are Turkey’s Erdogan and Russia’s Putin? Read More »
By Krisztina Than BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban alleged on Wednesday that the European Union executive was trying to overthrow his government and impose a “puppet” administration on Budapest, likening his protest to the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising. Orban, who faces the most acute threat to his 14-year rule as an opposition party …
Hungary’s Orban accuses EU of trying to topple him as opposition rallies Read More »
By Marcela Ayres WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Finance chiefs from the leading developed and emerging economies see “good prospects” for a soft landing for the global economy, and they have committed to resist protectionism, according to a G20 draft communique seen by Reuters on Wednesday ahead of the group’s meeting this week. The document, which a source …
G20 finance chiefs see ‘good prospects’ for global soft landing, draft communique says Read More »
By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) -Ecuadorean police said on Wednesday that two alleged criminal leaders involved in the storming of a TV station early this year have been captured after an operation in Spain, where they had been staying on false papers. “Commander Willy,” the alleged leader of Los Tiguerones, and his brother Alex, who …
Ecuadorean police say two men involved in TV attack arrested in Spain Read More »
By Lucinda Elliott MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) – A Uruguayan pension reform plan that seeks to lower the retirement age to 60 and will be put to citizens in a referendum on Sunday would “blow up” the South American country’s stable economic model if it went ahead, conservative presidential candidate Alvaro Delgado told Reuters. The plebiscite, the …
Uruguay presidential candidate warns pension reform would ‘blow up’ economic stability Read More »
By Margaryta Chornokondratenko KYIV (Reuters) – Before the war, Ukrainian soldier Yana Zalevska had plans for plastic surgery to enhance her appearance. But when a Russian drone struck her dugout in eastern Ukraine in August, tearing up her face and hands, she needed surgery for very different reasons. “I am not scared of scars,” said …
War-scarred Ukrainians receive aesthetic treatment for free Read More »
