Missiles ‘will be coming’ to Syria, Trump warns Russia
WASHINGTON/BEIRUT (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump warned Russia on Wednesday of imminent military action in Syria over a suspected poison gas attack, declaring that missiles “will be coming” and lambasting Moscow for standing by Syrian Presiden…
Braced for air strikes on Syria, some airlines re-route flights
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Some major airlines were re-routing flights on Wednesday after Europe’s air traffic control agency warned aircraft flying in the eastern Mediterranean to exercise caution due to possible air strikes on Syria.
British warship to help police North Korean sanctions
TOKYO (Reuters) – A British warship “changed its deployment” and arrived in Japan on Wednesday to join efforts to police U.N. sanctions imposed on North Korea over its nuclear and missile programs.
Belt and Road Initiative is not a Chinese plot, Xi says
BEIJING (Reuters) – President Xi Jinping’s signature foreign policy plan to build a new “Silk Road” of infrastructure and trade links between China and Eurasia is not a “Chinese plot”, Xi said on Wednesday, according to state media.
Russia warns any U.S. missiles fired at Syria will be shot down
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Russia has warned that any U.S. missiles fired at Syria over a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel enclave would be shot down and the launch sites targeted, raising the possibility of a U.S.-Russian confrontation.
More than 100 feared dead in Algerian military plane crash
ALGIERS (Reuters) – More than 100 people were killed when an Algerian military plane crashed into a field outside the capital on Wednesday, local media reported.
Russia will cope with latest round of U.S. sanctions: PM
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will cope with the latest round of U.S. sanctions, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.
WHO: 500 Syrian patients show symptoms pointing to toxic weapons exposure
GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization said on Wednesday around 500 people had been treated for “signs and symptoms consistent with exposure to toxic chemicals” after a suspected poison gas attack in a Syrian rebel enclave just before it fell…
German spy chief: high likelihood Moscow behind hack on German government
BERLIN (Reuters) – The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency on Wednesday said there was a “high likelihood” that the Russian government was behind a cyber attack on German computer networks, although he conceded it was difficult to be 100-per…
Philippine air and ground assault kills 12 Islamist militants in south
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine troops killed about a dozen members of a pro-Islamic State group in air and ground assaults this week on the southern island of Mindanao, the army said on Wednesday, in what it called preemptive moves to thwart militant at…
