Trump and Putin speak for an hour about Syria, Ukraine, North Korea
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone for about an hour on Tuesday and covered topics including Syria, Ukraine, Iran, North Korea and Afghanistan, a White House official said.
Lebanon’s Hariri holds talks with Egypt President Sisi in Cairo
CAIRO (Reuters) – Lebanon’s Saad al-Hariri, who announced his resignation as prime minister on Nov. 4, has arrived in Cairo for talks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egyptian state news agency MENA and Hariri’s press office said on Tuesd…
German political limbo threatens European reform push
BERLIN (Reuters) – Half a year ago, the political stars seemed perfectly aligned for a deep reform of the European Union and its euro currency.
Iraq to declare final victory over Islamic State after desert campaign
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday Islamic State had been defeated from a military perspective but he would only declare final victory after IS militants were routed in the desert.
Britain to detail Brexit bill when EU agrees to move talks forward
LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May will only detail how big a divorce settlement Britain is willing to pay the EU when the bloc gives a commitment to moving talks forward, according to a plan rubber-stamped by even her most pro-Brex…
Turkey charges three Bulgarians with migrant smuggling
SOFIA (Reuters) – Turkey has charged three Bulgarians with illegal migrant trafficking and assisting a criminal organization, the Bulgarian foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
Zimbabwe’s Mugabe resigns, ending four decades of rule
HARARE (Reuters) – Robert Mugabe resigned as Zimbabwe’s president on Tuesday, a week after the army and his former political allies moved to end four decades of rule by a man once feted as an independence hero who became feared as a despot.
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…
