U.S., Europeans to meet next week on aviation security
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. technical experts will hold more talks in Brussels next week in an effort to avert expanding a ban on in-cabin large electronics like laptops to airports in Europe and other regions, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security …
France’s Macron puts national security at heart of foreign policy
PARIS (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron is starting to realign France’s foreign policy, setting out plans to be less interventionist in conflicts abroad and putting his country’s national security at the heart of diplomacy.
Good start, not enough: EU leaders mull May’s Brexit offer
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Theresa May offered fellow EU leaders a “fair” deal on Thursday for compatriots living in Britain after Brexit, though her peers sounded skeptical and demanded more detail from a prime minister weakened by an electoral misfire two …
House of Saud unites behind king’s son – for now
DUBAI (Reuters) – The elevation of Mohammed bin Salman as Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia has ended two years of speculation about a behind-the-scenes rivalry near the pinnacle of royal power, but he still has to win over powerful relatives, clerics and t…
EU flexes military muscles with new defense plan
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union leaders launched their the most ambitious defense plan for decades on Thursday, agreeing a multi-billion-euro weapons fund, shared financing for battlegroups and allowing a coalition of the willing to conduct more mi…
Macron brings corporate background to cabinet shake-up
PARIS (Reuters) – When President Emmanuel Macron reshuffled his cabinet after four ministers with judicial probes hanging over them said they were quitting, he snubbed well-known heavyweights to fill the posts.
U.S. military says kills al Qaeda leader in key Yemen province
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military said on Thursday it carried out an air strike in Yemen that killed Abu Khattab al Awlaqi, the emir for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s Shabwa province, along with two other militants.
Russia’s Lavrov says new U.S. sanctions harm ties with Washington
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told his U.S. counterpart Rex Tillerson on Thursday that new sanctions imposed by Washington on Russia would damage relations between the two countries, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a st…
‘Imagine there’s no Brexit’: EU boss channels Lennon
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Since this month’s election, many British voices have joined a debate on how or even if Brexit may happen; on Thursday, one EU executive added that of John Lennon, sparking a round of more and less musical replies.
New citizens start lives in Canada as country seeks immigrants
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) – At citizenship ceremonies across the country, new Canadians began a fresh chapter in their lives last month in a land they chose for what they saw as its diversity, safety and opportunity.
