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OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney became a symbol of middle power resistance after a celebrated speech earlier this year, but he is expected to be more muted in his criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump at an upcoming summit in Europe. Carney’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, helped make him an international political star in January, when he declared the global rules-based […]

LONDON, June 12 (Reuters) – British health authorities said on Friday they will offer thousands of students protection against meningococcal B disease (MenB) through a one-off vaccination programme, acting after the country’s largest outbreak of the disease earlier this year. • Two people died in March in a MenB outbreak in Kent, southeast England, which health authorities said was the largest and fastest-growing ever seen in Britain. • UK authorities […]

BUDAPEST, June 12 (Reuters) – Seven people were killed and two injured in western Hungary early on Friday when a minibus carrying nine individuals crashed into a truck idling in traffic caused by an earlier accident on the M1 highway, police said. The crash near Gyor, 122 km west of Budapest, followed an earlier accident in the same area in which a truck collided with a construction vehicle, causing one […]

By Natalia Siniawski and Miguel Lo Bianco GUADALAJARA, Mexico, June 11 (Reuters) – FIFA reported an attendance of 44,985 for Thursday’s World Cup match between South Korea and the Czech Republic in Guadalajara, but swathes of empty seats around the stadium renewed concerns over ticket pricing and demand for the expanded tournament. While more than 80,000 squeezed into the Azteca stadium to watch the opener between co-hosts Mexico and South […]

June 12 (Reuters) – FanDuel-owner Flutter Entertainment said on Friday it would delist from the London Stock Exchange in August, while retaining its listing on the New York Stock Exchange, dealing a fresh blow to the British city’s financial markets. The betting giant said the decision to delist was in the best interests of its shareholders. Flutter joins a growing list of companies that have either shelved plans to list […]

GENEVA (AP) — Ice skating’s governing body is gliding into a presidential election Friday, free of the turmoil that just gripped its Olympic sibling skiing. Jae Youl Kim is set to be reelected unopposed by International Skating Union members for a second four-year term. It comes just months after he also was elevated to the International Olympic Committee’s executive board representing winter sports. The United States-educated Samsung executive’s first election […]

VINNYTSIA, Ukraine (AP) — The two burly men stare straight ahead, hands intertwined on a pottery wheel, fingers buried in the clay. They sense each other’s presence through touch alone. One is a veteran who lost his sight in combat and now teaches other blind veterans. Slowly, a piece resembling a cup takes form. The instructor, Ivan Shostak, 37, said he has made more than 1,000 such pieces but has […]

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is set to implement a new set of rules Friday governing how each of its 27 member states will deal with irregular migration and asylum seekers. The European Migration and Asylum Pact is the culmination of years of grueling negotiations that overhauled the previous system, which was widely considered a failure and gave far-right parties a potent issue to win votes. All EU members […]

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s H3 rocket returned to flight Friday with the debut of a new low-cost variant, a badly needed success for the country’s new flagship rocket that has struggled with mission failures while facing an increasingly competitive space industry. The H3 rocket took off from the Tanegashima Space Center on a southwestern Japanese island Friday morning and its second stage successfully reached a targeted orbit, the Japan Aerospace […]