Russia: U.S. strikes remove moral hurdles for S-300 missiles for Assad – RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) – U.S. military strikes on Syria last week removed any moral obligation Russia had to withhold S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems from its ally Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday, a…
Syrian army bombards Yarmouk camp, war monitor says
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Syrian army bombarded jihadists in the last area outside government control near Damascus overnight, as President Bashar al-Assad accelerated his push to retake remaining enclaves.
Russia says will not offer to host Trump meeting with North Korea’s Kim: RIA
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian will not offer to host a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday, according to the RIA news agency.
Russia says no reason not to supply S-300 missiles to Assad
MOSCOW (Reuters) – U.S. military strikes on Syria last week removed any moral obligation Russia had to withhold S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems from its ally Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday, a…
Russia says Trump invited Putin to U.S. during phone call
MOSCOW (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump invited his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to the United States during a phone call, and said he would be glad to see Putin in the White House, RIA Novosti reported on Friday, citing the Russian Foreig…
EU’s Barnier says still some 25 percent of work to do on Brexit
PARIS (Reuters) – The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said on Friday some 25 percent of work remained to be done on a pact covering UK withdrawal from the EU, including crucial issues such as management of the Ireland/Northern I…
Woman dies in fire at care home in northeast London
LONDON (Reuters) – A woman died in a fire at a care home for people with learning disabilities in northeast London on Friday.
China air force goads Taiwan with Hokkien-language video
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s air force has released a propaganda film dubbed into Hokkien, a language strongly identified with Taiwan’s pro-independence movement, showing bomber aircraft which have been involved in flying patrols around the self-ruled i…
Woman dead in Chingford fire: London Fire Brigade
(Reuters) – The London Fire Brigade said on Friday a woman has been confirmed dead in a fire at a flat on Connington Crescent, Chingford.
‘No job, no money’: Life in Vietnam for immigrants deported by U.S.
HO CHI MINH CITY (Reuters) – It wasn’t until Pham Chi Cuong saw the plane waiting to deport him from the United States that it sunk in that he was about to be sent back to Vietnam, the country he fled in 1990.
