UK Government Offers State Support to Lure Suitor for Tata's British Steel Plants and other top stories.

• UK Government Offers State Support to Lure Suitor for Tata's British Steel Plants

  LONDON—The U.K. government said Sunday that it would help India’s Tata Steel Ltd. secure a buyer for its struggling U.K. plants by providing aid to any prospective buyer regarding Tata’s growing pension deficit and heavy energy cost burden. Tata Steel, Europe’s second-largest steelmaker by production capacity, said last week that it was exploring a sale of its U.K. business, which includes the U.K.’s largest steel plant in Port...

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• Thousands attend rally in Warsaw against proposed abortion ban

  

  WARSAW Thousands attended a pro-choice rally outside parliament in Warsaw on Sunday after the powerful leader of Poland's ruling party backed a call by Polish Catholic bishops for a full ban on pregnancy terminations. Poland already has one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the European Union. Official statistics show only several hundred abortions are performed every year, but pro-choice campaigners say underground abortions are very common. The debate around reproductive rights has b..

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• Official: Rain, Floods Kill 45 in Northwest Pakistan

  

  PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Flash floods triggered by torrential rains Sunday killed at least 45 people in northwest Pakistan, officials said.Rains started overnight Saturday and caused flash flooding in several districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said a Pakistani national disaster management official, Latif ur Rehman.Another 34 people were admitted to hospitals with injuries, he said.Flash floods are commonly triggered during South Asia's summer monsoon season. Pre-monsoon rains like the curr..

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• Donald Trump on North Korea going to war: 'Good luck, enjoy yourself folks'

  

  Donald Trump on Saturday told a crowd of thousands he was sanguine about potential hostilities between North Korea and its neighbors. Related: North Korea releases propaganda film showing Washington under nuclear attack Speaking at a rally in Rothschild, Wisconsin ahead of the state’s primary on Tuesday, the Republican presidential frontrunner said that if conflict between Japan and nuclear-armed North Korea were to break out, “it would be a terrible thing but if they do, they do”. “Good lu..

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• Autopsy backs case against Israel soldier who shot Palestinian

  

  An autopsy on a Palestinian assailant showed Sunday that he was killed by a bullet to the head, backing a manslaughter case against an Israeli soldier caught on video shooting him, a doctor said. The soldier shot Abdul Fatah al-Sharif in the head on March 24 as he lay on the ground while apparently seriously wounded from earlier gunshot wounds. Video of the incident in Hebron in the occupied West Bank spread widely online and the soldier was arrested, with rights groups labelling it a summary ex..

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• Vanuatu hit with large earthquake, tsunami scare

  

  WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A strong earthquake hit off of the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu on Sunday, but authorities said any threat of a tsunami had mostly passed, and there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.The magnitude-6.9 quake struck 50 miles north of the town of Port Olry and 253 miles north of Vanuatu's capital, Port Vila, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It had a depth of 22 miles.The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center initially said that "hazardous tsunami waves ..

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• The Road to Recovery in Brussels

  

  The Brussels airport that was the site of a deadly terrorist attack last month has reopened.Zaventem airport partially reopened Sunday, nearly two weeks after suicide bombings killed 16 people and injured scores others at the check-in area. Sixteen others were killed and more injured in a separate attack in a Brussels metro station the same day. At least 270 people were wounded in the attacks.The passenger flights, operated by Brussels Airlines, left Zaventem Sunday, bound for Athens, Turin in I..

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