Reuters, Washington
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday a meeting with North Korea could happen over the next three to four weeks.
“I think we will have a meeting over the next three or four weeks,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Washington, Michigan. “It’s going be a very important meeting, the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.”
London polls set to leave May down
Reuters, London
Voters in London are expected to punish Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative Party at local government elections this week which could embolden critics of her Brexit strategy, but are not expected to trigger her downfall.
London and some other regions will on Thursday elect the local officials in charge of day-to-day public spending – a vote as much about issues like refuse collection and road repairs as it is about the national debate on immigration and May’s plan to take Britain out of the European Union after a 2016 referendum.
US urges negotiations in Armenian crisis
AFP, Washington
The United States on Saturday called on all parties in the Armenian political crisis to engage in “good faith” negotiations after the country’s veteran ruler Serzh Sarkisian stepped down following mass protests.
Ex-Soviet Armenia has been in the grip of severe turmoil for the past two weeks which began when Sarkisian’s ruling Republican Party announced his nomination as prime minister, after his second and last term as president ended.
7 killed in Indian road mishap
Xinhua, New Delhi
At least seven people were killed and 25 others injured in a collision between a truck and a bus in India’s Madhya Pradesh state Sunday, police said. The accident occurred in Mandsaur district, 350 km from the central state’s capital Bhopal.
‘Caravan’ migrants weigh staying in Mexico
Reuters, Tijuana
Hondurans, Guatemalans and Salvadorans who drew the wrath of President Donald Trump in a month-long caravan to the U.S. border will make hard decisions on Sunday whether to risk being deported all the way home by trying to cross, or to build a life in Mexico. After angry tweets from Trump, U.S. border authorities said some people associated with the caravan had been caught trying to slip through the fence, and encouraged the rest to hand themselves in to authorities.
Texas executes man convicted of killing two
Reuters, Austin
Texas on Wednesday executed a man convicted of opening fire at a children’s birthday party in 2008, believing a rival gang member was present and fatally shooting a woman and her 5-year-old granddaughter in a spray of bullets.
