Kremlin says it’s up to Russia where it deploys its missiles
MOSCOW (Reuters) – It is Russia’s sovereign right to decide where it deploys its military resources on its own territory, a Kremlin spokesman said on Tuesday, commenting on reports that Russia had deployed nuclear-capable Iskander missiles in Kaliningr…
U.S. warns on growing nuclear arsenals of China, Russia, North Korea
GENEVA (Reuters) – North Korea may be only months away from being able to strike the United States with a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile and its atomic weapons program must be shut down, a senior U.S. disarmament official said on Tuesday.
Turkey’s Erdogan says will not buy foreign defense systems except in emergency
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey will not buy defense systems, software or products from abroad except in emergency, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, vowing to develop domestic military designs and systems.
Hong Kong court lets democracy activist Joshua Wong walk free
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s highest court on Tuesday unanimously decided to free three young leaders of the Chinese-ruled city’s pro-democracy movement, including the public face of youth-led protests, Joshua Wong, in a stark reversal of an earli…
South Korean aerobatic jet skids off runway at Singapore Airshow, hurting pilot
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A supersonic aerobatic jet of South Korea’s Air Force skidded off one of the two runways at Singapore’s Changi Airport during the Singapore Airshow, closing one runway and causing flight delays, authorities said.
Pence heads to Olympics with stern message for North Korea
WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence was en route to Asia on Tuesday on a trip that takes him to the Winter Olympics in South Korea where his itinerary underlines Washington’s stance that North Korea is trying to use the Games fo…
Orchestral maneuvers: North Korean Olympics ferry tacks past sanctions
SEOUL/MUKHO PORT (Reuters) – A North Korean ferry arrived in South Korea on Tuesday carrying a 140-strong orchestra to perform during the Winter Olympics this week, taking advantage of a rare sanctions exemption from Seoul 16 years after its previous v…
We are 95 percent of the way to a coalition deal, German SPD says
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) are around 95 percent of the way to reaching a coalition deal, an SPD negotiator said on Tuesday, adding, however, the deal would not be a “ma…
Israeli forces kill Palestinian gunman blamed for West Bank ambush
YAMOUN, West Bank (Reuters) – Israeli forces killed a Palestinian gunman in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, saying he was the head of a militant cell responsible for an ambush in which a Jewish settler was shot dead.
U.N. demands cessation of Syria hostilities, says situation ‘extreme’
BEIRUT (Reuters) – U.N. representatives in Syria called on Tuesday for an immediate cessation of hostilities lasting at least month throughout Syria to allow aid deliveries and evacuations of the sick and wounded.
