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Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that Britain cannot "photoshop" its cultural landscape and complex history as doing so would be a distortion of its past, amid an ongoing row over the removal of statues of historical figures. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/30FStgH via IFTTT

King Mohammmed VI of Morocco had successful heart surgery on Sunday in Rabat, state news agency MAP said. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2UIWLQB via IFTTT

Brazilian Treasury Secretary Mansueto Almeida confirmed in an interview with financial blog Brazil Journal published on Sunday that he plans to resign from the government in July or August. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2AreYLV via IFTTT

Venezuela's supreme court will swear in new leaders of the nation's electoral council in a ceremony on Friday evening, the information ministry said in an email announcing the event. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2XWpnrP via IFTTT

The International Criminal Court said https://bit.ly/3hkge3X on Thursday U.S. President Donald Trump's authorization of economic and travel sanctions against ICC employees amounted to threats and coercion and were "an unacceptable attempt to interfere with rule of law". from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/3hiBrLy via IFTTT

The economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic could plunge an extra 395 million people into extreme poverty and swell the total number of those living on less than $1.90 a day worldwide to more than 1 billion, researchers said in a report on Friday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/3dVkLaY via IFTTT

Hundreds of Syrians in the mainly Druze city of Sweida took to the streets for a fourth day on Wednesday, protesting worsening economic conditions and demanding the downfall of Syrian President Bashar al Assad. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/3dMRe34 via IFTTT

The coronavirus crisis is exposing Britain's existing inequalities - between low and high earners, young and old workers and for ethnic minorities - which could be aggravated without reforms, a leading think tank said on Thursday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/3hfLcdk via IFTTT

The United States is planning to withdraw troops from Germany because Americans are against "paying too much" for other countries' security, the outgoing U.S. ambassador said late on Wednesday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/3dQWEKB via IFTTT

Iran told the U.N.'s aviation agency on Wednesday that it would send black boxes from a downed Ukrainian jetliner to Paris for analysis, once countries involved in the investigation agree, two sources familiar with the matter said. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2Ymsqsi via IFTTT

Boko Haram gunman killed at least 69 people and razed a village to the ground in northern Nigeria's Borno state on Tuesday afternoon, three sources told Reuters. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/3dOWvXL via IFTTT

Swedes may get an answer on Wednesday to the mystery of who shot Social Democrat Prime Minister Olof Palme when the Swedish prosecutor in charge of the case presents his conclusions to an investigation that has lasted 34 years. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/3f7kGRB via IFTTT

The 1986 murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme generated dozens of conspiracy theories but few serious leads. Swedes are hoping prosecutors will identify the person responsible on Wednesday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2Yi0Psd via IFTTT