The resident of the flat where the Grenfell Tower fire started was "absolutely blameless" despite "nasty lies" spread by the media, his lawyer said at a public inquiry on Wednesday. Source: Latest CNN News
Voters in a California county appeared to hand down a sentence of their own Tuesday to recall controversial Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky, according to early results from about half of the ballots. Source: Latest CNN News
PARIS (Reuters) - Investigators were carrying out searches at the French finance ministry on Wednesday as part of a probe into President Emmanuel Macron's chief of staff, two sources at the ministry said. Source: Reuters World News
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A resort island off Singapore that once housed a prisoner of war camp run by wartime Japanese forces and was called "Rear Death Island" is the venue for Tuesday's summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Source: Reuters World News
PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech president re-appointed Andrej Babis as prime minister on Wednesday, endorsing a coalition-in-waiting that would give the anti-NATO Communists a say in policymaking for the first time since the country's 1989 revolution. Source: Reuters World News
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is concerned about the deaths of protesters in Gaza, Prime Minister Theresa May told Israel's premier Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, saying that the situation had deteriorated. Source: Reuters World News
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The official spokesman for Syria's Manbij Military Council, a militia allied to the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern Syria, said on Wednesday that it will not accept a Turkish military presence in the town. Source: Reuters World News
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian government re-opened the highway between the cities of Homs and Hama on Wednesday a month after its forces retook a rebel-held pocket that had straddled the road that was closed for almost seven years. Source: Reuters World News
To protect brand owners, local brand representatives and consumers, the Cabinet of Ministers in Seychelles has approved procedural guidelines for border measures to deal with infringement and counterfeit goods entering the country. The director general at the Trade Division in the Ministry of Finance, Ashik Hassan, told SNA that “in Seychelles, we do have an [...]
VIENNA/PARIS (Reuters) - Iran will not cooperate more fully with atomic inspectors until a standoff over its nuclear deal is resolved, its U.N. envoy said, as one signatory warned Tehran against moving ahead with preparations to boost its uranium enrichment capacity. Source: Reuters World News