Iran aircraft deals hang by thread as Trump targets Tehran
PARIS (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s hawkish new approach towards Tehran, coupled with banking worries and domestic political turbulence in both countries, are causing growing uncertainty over Iran’s $36 billion deal to buy airliners from Boeing,…
Taliban attacks kill at least 69 across Afghanistan
KABUL (Reuters) – Taliban militants struck government targets in many provinces of Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 69 people, including a senior police commander, and wounding scores of others.
Catalonia refuses to renounce independence, anti-government protests form
MADRID/BARCELONA (Reuters) – Catalonia refused on Tuesday to bow to the Spanish government’s demand that it renounce a symbolic declaration of independence, setting it on a political collision course with Madrid later this week.
Hungary eases pressure on international universities in Soros row
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary has extended a deadline for a U.S.-accredited Budapest university founded by George Soros, philanthropist financier and prominent critic of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government, to comply with a new education law or fac…
POLITICS: Xi Jinping’s compliant generation
(Reuters) – The relative stability and comfort around them as they grew up, plus the steady drip of propaganda, have engendered a deep sense of patriotism in the “Class of 2012”.
Islamic State defeated in its Syrian capital Raqqa
RAQQA, Syria (Reuters) – U.S.-backed militias in Syria declared victory over Islamic State in its capital Raqqa on Tuesday, raising flags over the last jihadist footholds after a four-month battle.
Madrid, Catalonia clash over jailed pro-independence leaders as protests called
MADRID/BARCELONA (Reuters) – Authorities in Madrid and Barcelona locked horns over whether two jailed Catalan pro-independence leaders were political prisoners, as their detention looked set to reignite secessionist protests.
Polish President Duda says hopes Turkey will join EU
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland hopes Turkey will eventually join the European Union, Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Tuesday, ahead of an EU summit which will discuss the frayed relations between Brussels and Ankara.
Suspected U.S. drone strikes kill 31 on Pakistan-Afghanistan frontier
PARACHINAR/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Two suspected U.S. drone strikes on Tuesday killed 11 people on the mountainous Pakistan-Afghanistan border, following a strike a day earlier that killed 20, government and militant sources said.
Russian opposition leader’s fraud conviction arbitrary, Europe’s top rights court says
STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) – Europe’s top human rights court ruled on Tuesday that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s conviction for fraud in 2014 had been “arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable” and ordered Russia to pay him compensation.
