Taiwan brushes off concern about stranded citizens amid China route row
TAIPEI (Reuters) – There are still seats left for Taiwanese people to return home from China over the upcoming Lunar New Year, Taiwan said on Tuesday, brushing off concern a dispute over air routes could leave thousands stranded.
Poland’s President Duda says will sign Holocaust bill into law
WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Tuesday that he will sign a contested Holocaust bill into law, despite protests from Israel and the United States.
Myanmar policeman who arrested Reuters reporters tells court he burned his notes
YANGON (Reuters) – A Myanmar police officer who was part of the team that arrested two Reuters journalists in December told a court on Tuesday that he had burned the notes he made at the time, but gave no reason why he had done so.
Erdogan says U.S. has ‘calculations’ against Turkey, Iran, Russia in Syria
ANKARA (Reuters) – The United States is working against the interests of Turkey, Iran and maybe Russia in northern Syria, where it is sending in military supplies to an area controlled by Kurdish-dominated forces, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesd…
Syrian Observatory: air strikes kill 16 in eastern Ghouta
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said air strikes pounded insurgent-held suburbs east of Damascus on Tuesday, killing 16 people.
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.
