Berlin, Germany / AFP Europe’s media reacted with incredulity, sarcasm and sometimes dismay on Thursday to the news that top Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson is Britain’s new foreign secretary. In a shock move, new PM Theresa May appointed the eccentric former London mayor, known for his political antics and gaffe-prone style, as the top diplomat to lead the country …

  Dallas / AFP Funerals were held for two of the five officers killed in last week’s sniper shooting in Dallas, one day after President Barack Obama addressed a public memorial service honoring the slain police. Onlookers paused to pay their respects to Lorne Ahrens of the Dallas Police Department and Brent Thompson, an officer with Dallas Area Rapid Transit, as …

  Caracas / AFP Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has extended the country’s state of “economic emergency” for another 60 days, an official newspaper reported, a sign of declining conditions in the crisis-hit country. The state of emergency, in place since January, was necessary due to “extraordinary… social, economic, political, natural and ecological” pressures, according to the presidential decree, signed by Maduro …