China eyes expanded business ties with Eastern Europe amid EU concerns
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will offer the leaders of central and eastern Europe on Saturday expanded business ties at a summit in Sofia while seeking to reassure the EU that Beijing is not trying to divide the continent.
Washington and Pyongyang get down to ‘nitty gritty’ in nuclear talks
U.S. and North Korean officials have set up working groups to deal with “nitty gritty stuff” including verification of efforts to achieve denuclearization, a U.S. State Department spokeswoman said on Saturday, the second day of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit to Pyongyang.
Working groups on denuclearization set up by Pompeo and North Koreans: report
U.S. and North Korean officials have set up working groups to deal with “nitty gritty stuff” including validation of efforts to achieve denuclearization, a U.S. State Department spokeswoman said on Saturday, the second day of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit to Pyongyang.
Cost of one of those ‘expensive’ U.S.-South Korea military exercises? $14 million
A joint military exercise between the United States and South Korea scrapped after President Donald Trump griped about “tremendously expensive” military drills would have cost around $14 million, U.S. officials told Reuters on Friday.
U.S. accuses Russia of stifling press freedom after court fines radio
The U.S. State Department accused Moscow of stifling press freedom and media independence on Friday after a Russian court fined the U.S. government-sponsored Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty for violating Russia’s “foreign agent” law.
Chemical weapons agency finds ‘chlorinated’ chemicals in Syria’s Douma
(In July 6 story, corrects the location of positive samples in paragraph 10)
German, NATO officials wary of Trump-Putin summit: media
German lawmakers and security experts are growing increasingly concerned that U.S. President Donald Trump could take actions at his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin that are not coordinated with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)…
PM May will sack foreign minister Johnson if he undermines Brexit deal: Times
British Prime Minister Theresa May has told senior allies she will sack her foreign minister if he seeks to undermine a Brexit negotiating position agreed by her cabinet on Friday, the Times newspaper reported without citing sources.
France’s Macron to attend World Cup game in Russia
French President Emmanuel Macron will attend the soccer World Cup in Russia, the Elysee said on Friday, after France beat Uruguay to book a place in the semi-finals.
Canadian police charge truck driver in hockey team bus crash
Canadian police on Friday filed charges against a truck driver whose semi-trailer rig collided with a bus carrying a junior hockey team in April and killed 16 people in one of the worst disasters to strike the country’s sporting community.
