Macron scores diplomatic coup on Lebanon but balancing act under test
PARIS (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron’s initiative in bringing Lebanon’s Saad al-Hariri to Paris puts France at the center of a power struggle between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shi’ite Iran and will test a policy of neutrality that critics doubt can…
Turkey has not seen data on fugitive Raqqa fighters, officials say
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey has not been given crucial data to help identify Islamic State militants who fled their former stronghold in Raqqa last month and may have slipped out of Syria to threaten Turkish or Western targets, Turkish officials said.
Iraq relocates hundreds of foreign wives and children of suspected Islamic State militants to Baghdad
ERBIL/BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi authorities have moved hundreds of foreign wives and children of suspected Islamic State militants from a detention center in northern Iraq to Baghdad, citing security concerns and the difficulties of keeping them in a r…
Putin, Trump to discuss North Korea on Tuesday: IFX cites Kremlin aide
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump will discuss North Korea when they hold a telephone conversation on Tuesday, Interfax news agency cited Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov as saying.
Russia’s Putin hosts Assad in fresh drive for Syria peace deal
MOSCOW/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for three hours of talks to lay the groundwork for a new push by Moscow to end Syria’s conflict now that Islamic State’s territory is overrun.
Weather improves in search for missing Argentine submarine
MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (Reuters) – The search continued on Tuesday for an Argentine submarine with 44 crew aboard, missing in the South Atlantic for nearly a week, with improved weather expected to quicken the hunt for the vessel.
Ukraine rebel leader says ex-minister’s loyalists try to stir up trouble
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The head of Ukraine’s pro-Russian rebel Luhansk region said on Tuesday people close to the fired regional police chief were whipping up tension and had brought a large number of people in military uniform into the streets.
Zimbabwe’s parliament starts impeachment process against Mugabe
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s parliament began an impeachment process against President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday that looks set to bring his domination of a country he has ruled since independence nearly four decades ago to an ignominious end.
German political grandees press parties to compromise for stability
BERLIN (Reuters) – Two veteran allies of Chancellor Angela Merkel appealed to Germany’s parties on Tuesday to strike compromise to form a stable government that could drag Europe’s biggest economy out of a political impasse.
Suicide bomber kills 50 in Nigeria in deadliest attack this year
YOLA, Nigeria (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed at least 50 people at a mosque in northeastern Nigeria on Tuesday, the biggest mass killing this year in a region facing an insurgency by Islamist militant group Boko Haram.
