First lady’s finale
First lady Melania Trump visits the Giza Pyramids near Cairo on Saturday before leaving for Washington. Speaking to reporters about her husband, President Donald Trump, she said: “I don’t always agree with what he says, and I tell him that. But I have my own voice and my own opinions, and it’s very important for me that I express what I feel.” As for whether she’s ever told him to put his phone down, she said with a laugh, “Yes.”
and his wife, Annie, in the 1990s, overlooking the 11th hole of a golf course.
In 1962, Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth. He served in the Senate from 1974 to 1999.
Glenn died at age 95 in 2016.
Interpol asks China about missing president
Interpol said Saturday it has made a formal request to China for information about the agency’s missing president, a senior Chinese security official who seemingly vanished while on a trip home.
The Lyon-based international police agency said it used law enforcement channels to submit its
request to China about the status of Meng Hongwei. Its statement said the agency “looks forward to an official response from China’s authorities to address concerns over the president’s well-being,”
China, in the midst of a weeklong holiday, has yet to comment on the 64-yearold security official’s disappearance.
Meng’s wife says she hasn’t heard from him since he left the French city of Lyon at the end of September. France has launched an investigation.
In addition to his Interpol post, Meng is also a vice minister for public security in China.
Previously, Interpol had said that reports about Meng’s disappearance were
“a matter for the relevant authorities in both France and China.”
Lost lottery ticket leads to bank-robbery arrest
Authorities say a dropped lottery ticket led investigators to the man who robbed a suburban Chicago bank.
Court documents say an FBI agent found an Illinois lottery scratch-off ticket that surveillance video showed falling from the man’s pocket during the Sept. 28 robbery of a Chase Bank branch in Palatine.
Agents tracked the ticket to where it was sold at a gas station in the nearby community of Rolling Meadows. They used store video to match the buyer as the man
EU official sees progress in Brexit talks
The chances of Britain and the European Union striking a Brexit deal on their divorce are rising, one of the bloc’s leaders said, amid reports the two sides are moving closer on the fraught issue of the Irish border.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told three Austrian newspapers in comments published Saturday that “the rapprochement potential between both sides has increased in recent days.”
Negotiations faltered after the EU said last month that British Prime Minister Theresa May’s proposal for post-Brexit economic relations was unacceptable.
EU leaders say there needs to be major progress at the meeting for there to be a deal before Britain leaves the bloc on March 29.
Tanker-truck crash causes fire; 50 dead
At least 50 people were killed Saturday and more than 100 others had seconddegree burns when a tanker truck in Congo collided with a bus and, as villagers rushed to collect the leaking fuel, caught fire, witnesses and officials said.
The accident occurred in the village of Mbuba, not far from Kisantu city and on the main highway between and the country’s Matadi seaport and the capital, Kinshasa, about 125 northeast of the accident site.