Reuters World News Summary

Following is a summary of current world news briefs. Body found in wreckage of plane carrying soccer player Sala, investigators say

Air accident investigators said on Monday they had found the wreckage of the missing aircraft carrying Premier League soccer player Emiliano Sala on the seabed near Guernsey and that a body was visible inside. The 28-year-old Argentina-born forward had been en route from Nantes in western France with pilot David Ibbotson to make his debut for Welsh team Cardiff City when the plane is believed to have crashed into the sea on Jan. 21 Outsider wins El Salvador presidency, breaking two-party system

A former mayor campaigning on an anti-corruption ticket swept to victory in El Salvador's presidential election on Sunday, bringing an end to a two-party system that has held sway over the violence-plagued Central American country for three decades. Nayib Bukele, the 37-year-old former mayor of the capital, San Salvador, won 54 percent of votes with returns counted from 88 percent of polling stations, said Julio Olivo, the head of the electoral tribunal. No plan for Mosul: chaos and neglect slow Iraqi city's recovery

The demolition of a wrecked building in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul where Islamic State used to execute men they said were gay is already in its third month. Homeless boys who hunt for scrap in the remains of the former National Insurance Company building work quicker some days than the lone digger perched on its crumbling carcass. Iraqi president says Trump did not ask permission to 'watch Iran'

Iraqi President Barham Salih said on Monday that President Donald Trump did not ask Iraq's permission for U.S. troops stationed there to "watch Iran." Speaking at a forum in Baghdad, Salih was responding to a question about Trump's comments to CBS about how he would ask troops stationed in Iraq to "watch" Iran. Japan, Germany share responsibility to work towards global peace: PM Abe

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday that he and German Chancellor Angela Merkel share a responsibility to work towards global peace and prosperity, with both hoping for a prompt, democratic solution to Venezuela's leadership crisis. Merkel, on a two-day visit to Japan, said that Germany recognises opposition leader Juan Guaido as the nation's interim president, joining many European nations, and said he should organise new elections as soon as possible. Exclusive: Nigerian candidate's U.S. visit was temporary reprieve from graft ban

Nigerian presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar visited Washington two weeks ago to meet with top U.S. diplomats and lawmakers thanks to a temporary suspension of a travel ban linked to decade-old bribery scandals, according to people familiar with the matter. The U.S. administration has not commented on Atiku's status or his travel, but several U.S. diplomats and others familiar with the visit told Reuters the former vice president has been banned from entering the United States for the past several years after he figured prominently in two corruption cases. Car bomb kills 11 at Somalia shopping mall: police

A car bomb exploded at a shopping mall in Somalia's capital on Monday, killing 11 people and wounding 10 in an attack that police said was probably carried out by Islamist group al Shabaab. The blast occurred in Mogadishu's Hamarweyne district, a busy area with shops and restaurants. On historic trip, pope meets UAE leaders, gets royal welcome

Pope Francis, the first pontiff to set foot on the peninsula where Islam was born, met United Arab Emirates leaders in Abu Dhabi on Monday in a historic trip he hopes will foster peace through religious dialogue. Arriving at the sprawling presidential palace with its many domes of gold and glass, Francis was greeted with a flyover by UAE air force jets spewing out plumes of smoke in yellow and white - the colors of the Vatican flag. May will speak to EU business, visit Northern Ireland to bolster Brexit plan

Prime Minister Theresa May will talk to European businesses on Monday to underline the importance of Britain leaving the EU with a deal, a day before she travels to Northern Ireland to make a speech on Brexit, her spokesman said on Monday. May is scrambling to get support for her approach to win a revised deal with the European Union to try to break the deadlock in Britain over the country's departure, which is by law due to take place in less than two months. Major European nations recognize Guaido as Venezuela president

Nine European nations joined the United States in recognizing opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela's interim president on Monday, heightening a global showdown over Nicolas Maduro's socialist rule. France, Spain, Germany, Britain, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Austria and the Netherlands' coordinated move came after the expiry of an eight-day ultimatum for Maduro to call a new election.