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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will meet with his first foreign leader as president on Friday. It's British Prime Minister Theresa May. Spokesman Sean Spicer says Trump has also scheduled a meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto later this month to discuss trade, immigration and security. Spicer also says Trump spoke on Saturday with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and plans to set up meetings in the coming days.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis says he'll wait to see what President Donald Trump does before forming an opinion about him. Francis tells a Spanish newspaper (El Pais) that he doesn't like "judging people early." Asked about populist-style political leaders emerging in the U.S. and Europe, Francis warns against seeking a savior in times of crisis. He says Adolf Hitler in the 1930s' Germany "was voted for by the people and then he destroyed the people."
WASHINGTON (AP) —People across the nation and around the world are demonstrating for women's rights. Authorities in Washington, D.C., say it's safe to say the crowd at the Women's March in the nation's capital on Saturday exceeded the 500,000 that organizers told city officials to expect. Hours after the main rally and march was set to end, hundreds, if not thousands, of protesters continued to walk through downtown Washington with a police escort.
HYDERABAD, India (AP) — Railway officials say at least 23 people have been killed and 50 others injured after a passenger train derailed in southern India. A Divisional Railway manager says the accident took place around midnight Saturday. She says seven coaches of the Hirakand Express were thrown off the tracks. (in the Vizianagram district of Andhra Pradesh) Rescue workers are at the site Sunday morning trying to cut open mangled coaches.
BANJUL, Gambia (AP) — Gambia's defeated leader Yahya Jammeh is leaving the country, ending a political standoff that briefly saw two men claiming leadership of the tiny West African nation. He flew out of the capital, Banjul, on Saturday night, hours after announcing he would relinquish power. The incoming president, Adama Barrow, defeated Jammeh in the December elections.
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