Israeli forces evict settlers in West Bank land dispute case
NETIV HA’AVOT, West Bank (Reuters) – Israeli security forces on Tuesday began evicting Jewish settlers from 15 homes which Israel’s highest court ruled were built illegally on privately-owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.
Netanyahu questioned in German submarine case: spokesman
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was questioned by Israeli police on Tuesday for the first time in an investigation into a $2 billion sale of three German Thyssenkrupp submarines to Israel, but is not a suspect, police said.
Historic Trump-Kim summit ends with promise, light on substance
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged at a historic summit on Tuesday to move toward complete denuclearization, while the United States promised its old foe security guarantees.
Trump surprises with pledge to end military exercises in South Korea
SEOUL (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s declaration on Tuesday that he intended to end joint military exercises in Korea seemed to be news to both South Korean and U.S. military officials.
Witness no-show as Reuters reporters mark six months in Myanmar detention
YANGON (Reuters) – A Myanmar police investigator failed to show up at court on Tuesday to testify as a prosecution witness against two Reuters reporters who were arrested in December and accused of possessing secret government papers.
Man at center of Nobel literature scandal charged with rape
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – A Swedish state prosecutor has brought two charges of rape against the man at the center of a scandal that forced the Swedish Academy to cancel the award of the Nobel Prize for literature in 2018, the prosecutor said on Tuesday.
In Brexit showdown, British PM May faces challenge over ‘meaningful vote’
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May faces a showdown on Tuesday with lawmakers who want power to force her government to go back to the negotiating table if they reject a Brexit deal, testing her plans for leaving the European Union.
Saudi-led alliance gears up for battle in key Yemeni port city
ADEN (Reuters) – A Saudi-led coalition geared up on Tuesday for an assault on Yemen’s main port, preparing to launch by far the biggest battle of a three-year-old war between an alliance of Arab states and the Houthi movement that controls Yemen’s capi…
Trump’s North Korea summit falls short of Nixon-goes-to-China moment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s dramatic meeting with North Korea’s leader may have been choreographed to look like a Nixon-goes-to-China moment, but the summit appears to have failed to secure any concrete commitments by Pyongyang for dismantlin…
U.S. military in Korea says no guidance on cancelling war games
SEOUL (Reuters) – U.S. military forces in Korea have not received any direction to cease joint military drills, a spokesman said on Tuesday, after U.S. President Donald Trump said war games would be ended amid talks with North Korea.
