By REUTERS from NYT World https://ift.tt/2L90Mch
via IFTTT Ten suspected cartel gunmen and four police were killed during a shootout on Saturday in a Mexican town near the U.S. border, days after U.S. President Donald Trump raised bilateral tensions by saying he would designate the gangs as terrorists.

By STEPHEN CASTLE from NYT World https://ift.tt/2OyZsSm
via IFTTT Despite the bravery of bystanders, the deadly attack near London Bridge has raised questions about the efficacy of Britain’s prison rehabilitation system.

By BENJAMIN MUELLER from NYT World https://ift.tt/35K77D5
via IFTTT With a big but divided pro-European vote, one of Labour’s most glamorous election targets risks becoming a symbol of opposition campaign failure.

By AIMEE ORTIZ from NYT World https://ift.tt/2rG0CSX
via IFTTT The actor and environmentalist released a statement on Saturday after President Jair Bolsonaro falsely accused him of funding the fires recently set in the Amazon rainforest.

By LIAM STACK from NYT World https://ift.tt/2XXr5aE
via IFTTT With the German church’s global influence, a meeting of bishops and laypeople to take up hot-button topics has led to warnings of a new schism, originating in the home of the Protestant Reformation.

By ANATOLY KURMANAEV and ISAYEN HERRERA from NYT World https://ift.tt/2svZF01
via IFTTT Children ask teachers at the entrance of one struggling primary school if there is food before deciding whether to come in.

By AURORA ALMENDRAL and JES AZNAR from NYT World https://ift.tt/2DxbMfy
via IFTTT The Philippines for decades has supplied the largest share of labor on the world’s cargo ships. Filipino culture is brought aboard, from food to song and sports.

By REUTERS from NYT World https://ift.tt/2R5mt0F
via IFTTT President Jair Bolsonaro falsely claimed that the actor had financed the fires, his latest broadside to shift blame.

By CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Y2v1XF
via IFTTT For 43 years, Waltraud Ziervogel has presided over Konnopke’s, the iconic sausage business that her father started in 1930 in what became East Berlin.

By REUTERS from NYT World https://ift.tt/2DzNNw1
via IFTTT A court in Suriname on Friday convicted President Desi Bouterse of murder for the execution of 15 opponents in 1982 following a coup to seize power, sentencing the man who has dominated the former Dutch colony's recent history to 20 years in prison.

By KIT GILLET from NYT World https://ift.tt/2R3NKRp
via IFTTT Officials ended a rescue operation that had saved 254 animals as crews prepared to remove thousands of carcasses from the vessel.

By AUSTIN RAMZY from NYT World https://ift.tt/2OTEuwf
via IFTTT The police found no protesters during a final search of Polytechnic University, the site of some of the most violent clashes the city has seen this year.

By REUTERS from NYT World https://ift.tt/2XXpdie
via IFTTT Yorgen Fenech, who was arrested in connection with the killing, promised to supply information related to several people “close to the prime minister” if pardoned.

By DANIEL POLITI from NYT World https://ift.tt/2R1MIoO
via IFTTT Luis Lacalle Pou, the son of a former president, will take office after his rival conceded defeat, four days after a close and contentious runoff election.

By MUJIB MASHAL from NYT World https://ift.tt/2OyttSn
via IFTTT The president said stalled talks with the militant group were back on and called for a cease-fire — something his negotiators had deemed unrealistic.

By ALISSA J. RUBIN from NYT World https://ift.tt/2R1RS4f
via IFTTT The announcement comes after demonstrators set fire to the Iranian Consulate and the death of hundreds in violent antigovernment unrest.

By MEGAN SPECIA from NYT World https://ift.tt/2R4ae4O
via IFTTT The authorities said that several people were stabbed, and that the man who was shot appeared to have been wearing “a hoax explosive device.”

By ELIAN PELTIER from NYT World https://ift.tt/33xAXJw
via IFTTT The American free solo climber, one of the world’s best, fell nearly 1,000 feet on Wednesday while using a rope. He was 31.

By CHOE SANG-HUN from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Y0o0GJ
via IFTTT The two men raped women who were too drunk to resist, and one of them shared videos of the assaults, a court found.

By ALAN YUHAS from NYT World https://ift.tt/33raJbC
via IFTTT A melting block of sculpted ice stood in for a missing prime minister at a televised debate, infuriating Conservatives.

By MIHIR ZAVERI from NYT World https://ift.tt/35JYjgy
via IFTTT The authorities in Canada said they were still investigating what caused the plane to crash on Wednesday.

By DAMIEN CAVE and JAMIE TARABAY from NYT World https://ift.tt/37PpjwI
via IFTTT After a businessman said Chinese agents sought to implant him in Parliament, that revelation and other espionage cases have finally signaled the end of a “let’s get rich together” era.

By ELIAN PELTIER from NYT World https://ift.tt/35MCWv3
via IFTTT A surge in sales of thicker reusable plastic bags in British supermarkets is worsening their “plastic footprint,” a report says.

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA from NYT World https://ift.tt/2L1Rv5W
via IFTTT A crowd crush at a 1989 match in England killed 96 people, and officials initially faulted the fans. Investigations later showed poor crowd control was to blame.

By MARC SANTORA from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Ov02k3
via IFTTT With time running out to find survivors under the wreckage of a devastating earthquake, crews keep searching, while thousands of people search for shelter.

By CHOE SANG-HUN from NYT World https://ift.tt/2q02e9N
via IFTTT Analysts fear a looming crisis as North Korea warns of a Dec. 31 deadline for a new proposal from the United States on denuclearization.

By STEVEN ERLANGER from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Y5jIOJ
via IFTTT The United States and Germany will now pay the same amount into the military alliance’s relatively small central funding pot, its secretary general said.

By ISABELLA KWAI from NYT World https://ift.tt/34t9OZl
via IFTTT The Little Homie, a small Australian online retailer, says it is celebrating hip-hop. Jay-Z, who has spoken out about black identity and equality, says it is engaging in theft.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT World https://ift.tt/33tnaDR
via IFTTT The attacks could help the waning outbreak gain new life in an area that has endured heavy fighting.

By ANDREW HIGGINS from NYT World https://ift.tt/34ySG4I
via IFTTT The tech giant, following Google and others, has bowed to Russian demands that its apps not show Crimea as belonging to Ukraine on digital maps seen in Russia.

By STEPHEN CASTLE from NYT World https://ift.tt/2rAYGLl
via IFTTT The Scots could decide the outcome of Britain’s election next month, the future of Brexit and maybe even the survival of the United Kingdom.

By CHOE SANG-HUN from NYT World https://ift.tt/2OVntSo
via IFTTT The short-range projectiles were launched off the North’s east coast, days after Kim Jong-un ordered artillery fire near a disputed sea border.

By ALISSA J. RUBIN and FALIH HASSAN from NYT World https://ift.tt/2QU86MC
via IFTTT Antigovernment demonstrators, who have demanded an end to Iranian influence in Iraq, attacked the consulate in the city of Najaf.

By MARC SANTORA and ELIAN PELTIER from NYT World https://ift.tt/2KZhQBv
via IFTTT The death toll rose to 31 a day after the Balkan country was struck by one of the strongest tremors there in decades.

By BEN DOOLEY from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Or3fB3
via IFTTT The country is being pulled in two directions as it experiences a “boom” in L.G.B.T. awareness but also remains committed to a sometimes inflexible traditional culture.

By JULFIKAR ALI MANIK and KAI SCHULTZ from NYT World https://ift.tt/34rrxAy
via IFTTT The militants were found guilty in violence that killed two dozen people at an upscale bakery, one of the worst such attacks in the country.

By ANATOLY KURMANAEV and FEDERICO RIOS from NYT World https://ift.tt/35GfVto
via IFTTT In the coca-growing region where the former Bolivian president got his political start, farmers are loyal to him — and demanding his return.

By ALAN YUHAS from NYT World https://ift.tt/33pHgyu
via IFTTT Dilan Cruz, 18, died after being struck by a police projectile. Activists call him a symbol of “a generation that was robbed of its rights.”

By ANNA SCHAVERIEN and ALLISON MCCANN from NYT World https://ift.tt/2Or7U5T
via IFTTT A new program in Glasgow will give drug users pharmaceutical-grade heroin twice daily in a bid to reduce drug-related deaths.

By VIVIAN YEE from NYT World https://ift.tt/2OKj98C
via IFTTT At least eight people have been arrested this month, some of whom had not expressed criticism of the government in years, the groups said.

By MARC SANTORA from NYT World https://ift.tt/34o6M8B
via IFTTT Hundreds injured, buildings toppled and many trapped in the rubble as the small Balkan nation tried to assess the damage.

By MARIA ABI-HABIB and SAMEER YASIR from NYT World https://ift.tt/2OMkPyt
via IFTTT A Swiss Embassy employee is abducted and asked about asylum applications and investigators are banned from leaving just days after Gotabaya Rajapaksa is elected.

By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ from NYT World https://ift.tt/2KZ52vb
via IFTTT When the 35-year-old performer and model collapsed with an apparent heart attack during filming for a strenuous, stunt-filled series, it set off a wave of anger.

By CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY from NYT World https://ift.tt/2DeOUB9
via IFTTT The country will decide whether to legalize assisted suicide and recreational marijuana, and whether to decriminalize abortion. Conflict-averse New Zealanders may be pushed onto uncomfortable ground.

By BENJAMIN MUELLER from NYT World https://ift.tt/2KV1Xfg
via IFTTT The rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, suggested the opposition party’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, was “unfit for office,” adding that Britain’s soul was at stake in next month’s election.

By DAN BILEFSKY from NYT World https://ift.tt/2skcfPU
via IFTTT A culinary symbol of Montreal has become ensnared in a battle pitting environmentalists against bagel-loving traditionalists.

By RAPHAEL MINDER from NYT World https://ift.tt/2ONfQgM
via IFTTT Fresh from a strong showing at the polls, members of the ultranationalist Vox party have called for the repeal of a law that protects women from violence.

By STEVEN LEE MYERS and CHRIS HORTON from NYT World https://ift.tt/34ljG7j
via IFTTT The executives were detained as officials look into accusations that the company’s workers intervened in Taiwan’s looming national election campaign.

By REUTERS from NYT World https://ift.tt/35vOQta
via IFTTT The aircraft, operated by the local carrier Busy Bee, went down in a densely populated neighborhood of Goma shortly after takeoff on Sunday.

By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ from NYT World https://ift.tt/2KVVAsp
via IFTTT Since the big loss for the pro-Beijing camp, Chinese state media has resorted to a favorite tactic by blaming the United States, a nationalistic message that plays well to the masses at home.