Excited Spice Girls say reunion tour will feel strange without “Posh”
LONDON – British pop band the Spice Girls have joked about their plans for a new album after announcing they would reunite for a UK tour next year but said…
UK PM May says won’t seek Brexit deal “at any cost”, needs more time
LONDON – 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…
Italy says will help Pakistani woman in blasphemy case leave her country
ROME – Italy says 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…
Six people arrested in France over “loose” plan to attack Macron
PARIS – 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.…
West calls on China to close Uighur detention camps
GENEVA – Western countries including Canada, France and Germany have called on China to close down detention camps, which activists say hold 1 million Uighurs and other Muslims. At a…
Erdogan says other countries cannot extract gas in Turkish, N.Cyprus waters
ISTANBUL – Turkey will not allow the exploitation of gas reserves in Turkish and north Cypriot waters of the eastern Mediterranean, President Tayyip Erdogan says. The eastern Mediterranean is believed…
New Caledonia votes against independence from France
PARIS – The South Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia has voted against independence from France in a long-awaited referendum that capped a 30-year long decolonisation process. A “yes” vote would…
Activists urge deep scrutiny of China at UN rights gathering this week
GENEVA – Activists have called for UN member states to pressure China this week to account for alleged human rights violations, including the suspected mass detention of one million Muslim…
Egypt says 19 militants killed in security operation after attack on Christians
CAIRO – Egyptian security forces killed 19 Islamist militants from a cell believed to be responsible for an attack on Christians in Minya province in central Egypt in which seven…
After long separatist struggle, New Caledonia set for independence vote
New Caledonia, a French archipelago in the South Pacific, votes today on whether to become the world’s newest state in a referendum on independence that is the result of a…
