Norway’s police downgrade threat level
OSLO (Reuters) – Norwegian police said on Wednesday they had lowered the national threat assessment, but still regarded an attack by militants as a possibility.
Egypt detains 29 people on suspicion of espionage for Turkey
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s public prosecutor has ordered the detention of 29 people suspected of espionage on behalf of Turkey and joining a terrorist organization, state news agency MENA reported on Wednesday.
North Korea calls terror relisting ‘serious provocation’ by Trump: state media
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea denounced on Wednesday U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to relist it as a state sponsor of terrorism, calling it a “serious provocation and violent infringement”, North Korean state media reported.
Escape from North Korea: video shows defector under fire
SEOUL (Reuters) – A North Korean border guard briefly crossed the border with the South in the chase for a defector last week – a violation of the ceasefire accord between North and South, a video released on Wednesday by the U.N. Command (UNC) in Seou…
China says hopes South Korea continues to appropriately handle THAAD issue
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his South Korean counterpart Kang Kyung-wha on Wednesday that Beijing hopes Seoul continues to appropriately handle their dispute over the deployment of a U.S. anti-missile system in South Korea…
U.S. Navy plane crashes in Philippine Sea, three missing
TOKYO (Reuters) – A U.S. Navy transport plane carrying 11 people crashed in the Philippine Sea south of Japan on Wednesday as it flew to the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan and three people were missing, in the latest Navy accident in the region.
Lebanon’s Hariri suspends resignation as PM, easing crisis
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s Saad al-Hariri on Wednesday suspended his decision to resign as prime minister at the request of President Michel Aoun to allow for dialogue, easing a major political crisis.
Some German Social Democrats question rejection of grand coalition
BERLIN (Reuters) – A group of Social Democrat (SPD) deputies is questioning their party’s rejection of a renewed ‘grand coalition’ with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives to resolve Germany’s worst political crisis of modern times, according to B…
Zimbabwe’s Mnangagwa to be sworn in as president on Friday
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa will be sworn in as president on Friday, marking a new era for the country ruled by Robert Mugabe from independence nearly four decades ago until his swift downfall this week.
Lebanon’s Hariri says to hold off resignation as PM
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s Saad al-Hariri said on Wednesday he would hold off presenting his resignation as prime minister in response to a request from President Michel Aoun to allow more dialogue.
